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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) revealed in regulatory filings Tuesday her husband Paul Pelosi sold millions worth of stock in chipmaker Nvidia at a loss a day before the Senate Усвојено a multibillion-dollar bill aimed in part at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing that sent Nvidia shares surging, a decision Pelosi’s office says was to avoid further “misinformation” about the couple’s investments.

Кључне чињенице

Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at $165.05 on Tuesday, worth $4.1 million, according to the подношење.

Pelosi lost $341,365 in the transaction, according to the filing.

Pelosi missed out on a sizable payday, as Nvidia shares have since jumped 7.8% to $177.90.

The sale comes a month after a June 17 подношење revealed Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 Nvidia shares, куповине the options as well as 5,000 shares outright last summer.

Pelosi’s Nvidia trades received широко распрострањен критика, despite Pelosi buying the options a year earlier and exercising them on the date of their expiration.

Пресудна цита

Drew Hammill, Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, wrote in a statement to Форбс: “Mr. Pelosi decided to sell the shares at a loss rather than allow the misinformation in the press regarding this trade to continue.”

Кључна позадина

Paul Pelosi’s investments have generated significant public interest, notably when he made a $5.3 million изненадна срећа after exercising Alphabet options last June shortly before a House vote on antitrust actions against Silicon Valley titans (considering Pelosi’s options would have expired on the day they exercised them, it’s highly unlikely anything against the rules occurred). Pelosi also купио more than $2 million in Tesla stock in March. Members of Congress are required to publicly disclose all trades made by themselves or their immediate family within 45 days. Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) увео a bill in January barring members of Congress and their family members from owning individual stocks, an idea to which Nancy Pelosi је сигнализирао openness. When asked by a reporter last week if her husband ever traded on information provided by her, Pelosi одговорио је: “Absolutely not.”

Главни критичар

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) звао last week for a hearing to crack down on alleged insider trading from lawmakers and their families, citing the Pelosi and Nvidia deal. “Speaker Pelosi and her husband remain undeterred from cashing in,” Hawley wrote in a letter to the head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.).

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The Pelosis’ trading activity is viral on social media: a Twitter account titled “Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker” tracking his holdings has 88,000 followers, while TikTok videos on the investments regularly generate millions of views.

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