News Digest for November 9, 2006

There are 7 items… Dems Pledge to Scrutinize Big Business | S.E.C. Is Seeking to Help Small Companies on Audits | D.Boerse set to lose battle for Euronext -analysts | The future of financial reporting | CNW Group’s AGM Survival Kit | Hertz dumps Deutsche Bank from IPO | Microsoft Finishes Vista, to Meet New Release Targets

Dems Pledge to Scrutinize Big Business
Generally speaking, Democrats have said they will differ from Republicans by being tougher watchdogs of corporate wrongdoing and government spending and bigger defenders of consumers and labor unions.

S.E.C. Is Seeking to Help Small Companies on Audits
Regulators are seeking a way to lighten the burden of the Sarbanes-Oxley law on smaller companies by addressing the focus and cost of audits of internal controls, Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said yesterday.

D.Boerse set to lose battle for Euronext -analysts
Some analysts saw the battle for Euronext all but lost for Deutsche Boerse after it announced late on Tuesday talks with Borsa Italiana on a joint approach towards creating a federal European stock exchange had failed.

The future of financial reporting
The real winners - at least in the short-term? Accounting firms, of course, who would step in to help companies, investors and analysts catch up with the interactive reporting revolution - at a price.

CNW Group’s AGM Survival Kit offers relief to Canadian public companies
“The AGM Survival Kit contains a customizable grouping of CNW-delivered services essential to a successful AGM…”

Hertz dumps Deutsche Bank from IPO
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. dropped Deutsche Bank from the underwriting team on its upcoming $1.5 billion initial public offering over unauthorized e-mail messages sent by an employee of the bank, the car-rental giant said in a Wednesday regulatory filing.

Microsoft Finishes Vista, to Meet New Release Targets
Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software runs almost 95 percent of the world’s personal computers, said it finished its new Windows Vista in time to release it to businesses this month and consumers in January.

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