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Allegations based on unnamed sources of information — including unidentified people, documents, and other sources.
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Contributed in 2008 by David Gold
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Unidentified sources of information: Allegations based on...

A statement about the future is actionable under Rule 10b-5 only if it was false when stated.
Allegations of insider trading, although not enough to satisfy the the "strong inference" requirement of the scienter pleading standard of the...
Statements about the future do not become actionable misstatements under Rule 10b-5 merely because they later turned out to have been incorrect.