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The overwhelming volume of sell transactions relative to buy transactions by company insiders over the last six months in key leading sectors of the market is the worst Alan Newman, editor of the Crosscurrents newsletter, has ever seen since he began tracking the data. The strategist looked at insider trading activity amongst the top ten companies that make up the Nasdaq such as Apple [AAPL 308.05 -0.79 (-0.26%) ], Google [GOOG 618.60 2.10 (+0.34%) ] and Amazon [AMZN 169.95 0.95 (+0.56%) ]. Then he analyzed the biggest members of the Retail HOLDRs ETF like Gap [GPS 19.68 0.32 (+1.65%) ],...

Three fatal shootings since Saturday have pushed San Francisco's murder total for the year to the highest level in more than a decade. In the latest killing, a 24-year-old man died after being shot in the city's Hunters Point neighborhood Monday afternoon. That murder follows the fatal shooting Saturday morning of two men who were gunned down in the city's Mission neighborhood. For the year, the homicide total in San Francisco now stands at 97 - the city's most killings in more than a decade. The last time the city had more than 97 homicides in one year was in...