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Article: Business Week Probes Trading Of Stocks Mentioned in Column
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 22, 1988
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Business Week magazine is investigating unusual trading in
stocks mentioned in its "Inside Wall Street" column-trading that took
place before the magazine's distribution.
The investigation was started after Business Week editors
noticed suspicious trading in the stocks on Thursdays, the day after
the magazine is sent to the printers, said Mary McGeachy, a public
relations representative for Business Week.
Gene G. Marcial, the principal author of the "Inside Wall Street"
column, "was the person who discovered this and brought it to our
attention," said Stephen B. Shepard, editor-in-chief of Business
Week. Shepard said he could not discuss the details of the case
because of the internal ...