Bill Gates Sells $43 Million Worth of Microsoft

Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks?

Below are lists of the top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday as ranked by dollar value. Company executives and directors are in the best position to assess the attractiveness of their firms' shares, and here is how many of them are voting their wallets!

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Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Bought Dollar Value CNX Gas (CXG) Consol Energy Inc BO 136,000 $3,705,882 Autoliv (ALV) Westerberg Lars DIR 67,000 $1,411,690 Cna Financial (CNA) Loews Corp BO 86,400 $1,247,616 Corning (GLW) Gund Gordon DIR 100,000 $1,049,000 Corning (GLW) Flaws James B VCB,CFO, DIR 100,000 $1,008,100 Colonial Properties Tr (CLP) Meisler Herbert A TT 100,000 $773,000 Paccar (PCAR) Pigott Mark C CB,CEO, DIR 20,000 $526,800 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea (GAP) Emil Capital Part LLC BO 50,000 $365,120 RTI International Metals (RTI) Gallatin Ronald L DIR 20,000 $252,700 JMP Group (JMP) Jolson Joseph A CB,CEO, DIR,BO 54,000 $240,300

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $42,838,240 Amgen (AMGN) Sharer Kevin W CB,CEO, DIR 180,000 $10,450,777 Smart Balance (SMBL) OSS Capital Mgt BO 230,000 $1,623,800 Autoliv (ALV) Westerberg Lars DIR 67,000 $1,406,080 Seacor Holdings (CKH) Kensico Associates LP BO 18,900 $1,276,506 Parametric Tech (PMTC) Harrison C Richard CEO,PR, DIR 99,820 $1,200,535 Colonial Properties Tr (CLP) Ripps Harold W TT 100,000 $773,000 Yahoo (YHOO) Hippeau Eric DIR 40,000 $563,999 Gabelli Dividend &ome Tr (GDV) Gabelli Mario J DIR 50,000 $550,450 Parametric Tech (PMTC) Moses Cornelius F III CFO,VP 44,220 $530,751

Key to Titles: A=Assistant, AI=Affiliated Investor, AO=Accounting Officer, BD=Business Development, BO=Beneficial Owner, CAO=Chief Accounting Officer, CB=Chairman, CCO=Chief Compliance Officer, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, CFO=Chief Financial Officer, CIO=Chief Information Officer, CO=Compliance Officer, COO=Chief Operating Officer, CT=Controller, CTO=Chief Technology Officer, DIR=Director, F=Founder, FO=Financial Officer, GC=General Counsel, HR=Human Resources, IO=Information Officer, IR=Investor Relations, LO=Legal Officer, MD=Managing Director, O=Officer, OO=Operating Officer, PR=President, PT=Partner, REL=Relative of an insider, SEC=Secretary, SH=Shareholder, SO=Sales Officer, TO=Technology Officer, TR=Treasurer, TT=Trustee, VCB=Vice Chairman, VP=Vice President, X=Ex Officer or other title displayed.

Source: InsiderInsights.com

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