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Congressional Panel Accused Of Leaking Insider Information, Refuses To Comply With Probe

• zerohedge.com

It was back in April 2013, when the WSJ reported of a peculiar surge in various health insurance stocks that came moments after a report from Height Securities, a Washington-based investment-research firm that ferrets out policy news and analysis for investors, correctly predicted the Obama administration would reverse course on big spending cuts that would have hit health insurers. The note was released about 15 minutes before markets closed on Monday, April 1, leading to the following surge in the biggest Obamacare beneficiaries.

Needless to say, it is quite clear that non-public info was leaked by US legislators to a "expert network" consulting company, which in turn further propagated the information to its own clients, making them profits of up to 8.6% in milliseconds.