The Securities and Change Fee on Monday issued a pointy warning in opposition to buying and selling on nonpublic data associated to the coronavirus a warning that got here days after information of latest inventory gross sales by the CEO of the proprietor of the New York Inventory Change and his senator spouse sparked widespread criticism and requires investigations.

The assertion from the SEC's co-directors of enforcement about "market integrity" didn't check with these trades by NYSE Chairman Jeff Sprecher and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., or trades by three different senators previously two months.

Sprecher and Loeffler's trades, involving gross sales of as much as $three million value of securities, got here within the weeks earlier than inventory market indexes dramatically fell in worth as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and on the heels of a personal,...