Seeing who left the company would be public knowledge.
Getting information from someone who left the company, telling you of internal issues that are worse than what they are reporting, would still be insider information.
Okay if it were truly insider information... would it be openly discussed on a public forum?
We’re not talking about having a quarterly or annual report and making trades worth millions a half hour before it’s released.
We’re talking about internal information from corporate broadcasts/netcasts. When this news is being relayed to 1,400 people at a time it’s not exactly a state secret.
I’m really just trying to say that what the financial press is reporting vs. what GE employees as a whole are aware of are much, much different.