Spo Advisory Buys $9.5M Worth of Resolute Energy

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- 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 Thursday 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.

Resolute Energy (REN) Spo Advisory Corp BO 912,700 $9,495,126 Nara Bancorp (NARA) Lee Chong Moon DIR 133,334 $1,000,005 Carnival (CCL) Weisenburger Randall J DIR 20,000 $590,740 Cardo Medical,. (CDOM) Frost Phillip Md Et Al BO 1,428,572 $500,000 Reynolds American (RAI) Powell H G L Hugo DIR 7,600 $363,731 Nara Bancorp (NARA) Whang Scott Yoon-suk DIR 13,333 $99,998 Huntington Bancsharesmd (HBAN) Afzal Zahid VP 15,000 $60,600 Nara Bancorp (NARA) Park Ki Suh DIR 8,000 $60,000 Valhi /de/ (VHI) Simmons Harold C CB,DIR, BO 5,000 $50,500 Nara Bancorp (NARA) Kim Min J CEO,PR 6,667 $50,003

Celgene Corp (CELG) Burton Graham O 39,639 $2,070,222 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 600 $1,967,693 Carnival (CCL) Arison Micky Meir CB,CEO, BO 62,915 $1,913,913 CSX (CSX) Gooden Clarence W VP,CCO 35,000 $1,487,850 EV3 (EVVV) Emmitt Richard B DIR 100,000 $1,321,000 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 100,000 $843,660 Amcol International (ACO) Washow Lawrence E DIR 25,000 $714,000 Biomed Realty Trust (BMR) Gold Alan D CB,CEO, DIR 50,000 $665,338 C H Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) Wiehoff John CEO,DIR 9,232 $516,992 Bottomline Technologies (EPAY) Eberle Robert A CEO,PR, DIR 30,000 $453,339

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