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IROs, not regulators should quash rumors

By Dominic Jones on July 8, 2008

THERE is a growing chorus of calls for regulatory action in the United States against traders who spread false rumors to manipulate stock prices, but I think at least half of the problem lies with companies themselves — and poor investor relations practices in particular.
In today’s New York Times, Dealbook writer Andrew Ross Sorkin writes [...]

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History made in Japan

By Dominic Jones on May 29, 2008

WE “TRAVEL” to Japan regularly as part of our research of how companies around the world are using the web to communicate with their investors.
When we first started going there, standards of online IR communication were exceptionally poor. Except for a couple of firms like NTT DoCoMo and Sony, the country’s blue chips as [...]

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