Insider Sells $2M of Dow Chemical

NEW YORK (TheStreet.com) -- 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 Friday 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! Please note, however, that these are factual lists, not buy and sell recommendations. Dollar value is only one metric to assess the importance of an insider transaction.

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Video Display (VIDE) Ordway Ronald D CEO,DIR, BO 42,500 $128,350 Synta Pharmaceuticals (SNTA) Chen Lan Bo DIR,BO 20,000 $57,600 Synta Pharmaceuticals (SNTA) Bahcall Safi R CEO,PR, DIR 20,000 $57,009 Greenbrier Companies (GBX) Furman William A CEO,PR, DIR 4,744 $55,103 Columbia Banking System (COLB) Regis Daniel C DIR 3,000 $40,740 Savannah Bancorp (SAVB) Lewis J Curtis III DIR 5,000 $38,993 Rodman & Renshaw Capital (RODM) Friedman Mark L DIR 20,000 $31,100 Exar (EXAR) Leza Richard L DIR 2,000 $14,400 Stewart Information Services (STC) Smith Edgar Ashley VP,LO 1,000 $13,964 John Hancock Pref Inc Fund II (HPF) Moore John A Ma TT 500 $8,040

JDA Software Group (JDAS) Thoma Cressey Equity Partners BO 206,644 $4,195,881 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 900 $3,157,910 Colgate Palmolive (CL) Patrick Stephen C CFO 28,337 $2,022,851 Dow Chemical (DOW) Allemang Arnold A DIR 85,000 $1,997,245 Stone Tan China Acquisition (STTA) Integrated Core Strategies BO 200,000 $1,572,000 Odyssey Healthcare (ODSY) Steffy David L DIR 100,000 $1,230,000 Peoples United Financial (PBCT) Mandel Henry R VP 70,000 $1,183,000 Community Health Systems (CYH) Portacci Michael T PR 36,777 $1,142,073 Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) Nemerov Jackwyn DIR,VP 16,859 $1,140,680 Cameron International (CAM) Wilkinson Bruce W DIR 32,000 $1,090,240