# Profs. Menachem Brenner & Marti Subrahmanyam's research on insider trading is featured

1 Faculty News June 17, 2014 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/usa-options-study-idUSL2N0OY1CY20140617) -- "The study by professors at New York University and McGill University in Montreal - which looked at informed trading activity in equity options before merger and acquisition announcements from January 1996 through December 2012 - showed 25 percent of the deals had some sort of unusual activity taking place 30 days before the deal announcement."

[Read more](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/usa-options-study-idUSL2N0OY1CY20140617)

Additional coverage appeared on [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/101770127), [CNBC](http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000285137), [Fortune](http://fortune.com/2014/06/17/insider-trading-study/), [Fox Business](http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3632150196001/how-widespread-is-insider-trading/#sp=show-clips), [Nightly Business Report](http://nbr.com/2014/06/17/1-in-4-deals-involves-insider-trading/), [PBS](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-financial-crisis/to-catch-a-trader/study-corporate-mergers-overrun-by-insider-trading/), [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/17/deals-of-the-day-siemens-mitsubishi-make-their-case/) and [Yahoo! Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/hot-stock-minute/breaking-news-on-consumer-inflation-and-housing--senate-looks-at-high-frequency-trading-120529509.html).