Traders work at the post that trades H.J. Heinz Co. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the FBI examines possible insider trading in the options of the ketchup maker before its blockbuster deal last week to be acquired by Warren Buffett and Brazil’s 3G Capital for $23 billion in cash. Almost immediately, options market players noted there had been extremely unusual activity the day before the deal was announced.

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