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By now, the story is familiar: A company announces either good or bad news and its stock price goes up or down, only for investors to later learn that around the same time, corporate insiders sold millions of dollars of their company stock holdings, often for the first time in years. It happened at Eastman Kodak, Moderna Therapeutics, and, more recently, at government contractor Emergent BioSolutions, whose share price fell over 50% from February 2021 to April 2021, coinciding with its announcement of negative financial results and COVID-19 vaccine production problems. Just before that period of bad news, for the first time in over four years, its CEO Robert G. Kramer sold a substantial amount of his company stock for proceeds of over $10 million.

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