House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sells Visa, Apple calls, exercises Nvidia calls
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have sold millions of dollars of Visa (NYSE:V) and call options in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and exercised millions of dollars in call options in Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), according to CongressTrading.com, a database that keeps track of lawmaker's stock trades.

The transactions occurred on June 17 and June 21, respectively.
The two largest transactions were the Nvidia (NVDA) call and selling the stake in Visa (V), both with a reported value between $1M and $5M.
The Apple (AAPL) calls that were sold were worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
When a person sells a call option, it is usually seen as bearish as the person believes the price of the security will be flat or decline in value.
Pelosi has come under fire for the trades in the past, but has defended them, saying last year that the U.S. is a "free market economy" and lawmakers "should be able to participate in that."
On Thursday, investment firm Bank of America said Apple (AAPL) could generate as much as an extra $20B in revenue by 2026 if it moved advertising beyond the walled garden of the App Store.