By Dominic Jones on February 4, 2009
The New York Stock Exchange is set to change its antiquated “timely alert policy” to bring it in line with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) guidance for using corporate websites to satisfy Regulation FD.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, Marketwire, nyse, pr newswire, reg fd, SEC, timely alert policy, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir departments, IR websites, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, twitter, us sec
By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones on July 22, 2008
BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust. Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, Bloomberg, Forbes, indymac bancorp, Investor Relations, Ladenburg, ladenburg thalmann, nyse, Richard X. Bove, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on July 9, 2008
WHILE it’s pure coincidence, I had to smile when I saw this one-day chart showing a 4% gain in Jack in the Box Inc.’s (NYSE:JBX) stock immediately after the firm announced yesterday that it has hired four-time IR Magazine Award winner Carol DiRaimo. According to the news release, she is assuming the investor relations responsibilities [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Harold Sachs, Investor Relations, ir magazine, jack in the box, jack in the box inc, JBX, nyse, San Diego
By Dominic Jones on April 22, 2008
WHERE can you legally stuff the ballot boxes with votes from people who do not actually cast ballots? Where can you cling to your position by having those votes push you to a majority? Why, in America, of course. This happens in elections of corporate directors under something called broker non-votes, which the New York [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate directors, corporate governance, CtW, dow jones newswires, labor federation, Neal Lipschutz, new york stock exchange, nyse, SEC, securities and exchange commission, William Patterson
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
SOFTWARE company BladeLogic, which went public last July, has one of the hippest ticker symbols going: BLOG. But now that the company is being acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) those funky four letters are up for grabs. One problem, though. The way the US IPO market has been doing so far this year, it [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged initial public offerings, Investor Relations, IPOs, nasdaq, national venture capital association, nyse, stocks, thomson financial, ticker symbol, venture capital, venture capital association, venture capital funding, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on April 5, 2007
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Though we try to avoid them, some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. General News NYSE Euronext Falls in First Day as Combined Exchange NYSE Euronext, home to General Electric Co., France [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, China, Euronext, Europe, Financial Services Authority, France Telecom SA, FSA, General Electric Co., Heineken NV, IPOs, John Raymond, law, London, Moody's, nasdaq, Nasdaq China, nyse, Paul Munn, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, SEC, securities, Steven Bloom, stocks, The Corporate Library, twitter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By Dominic Jones on August 31, 2006
There are 5 items today… Euronext vows to do merger with NYSE despite opposition | Unloved bonds make investor comeback — for now | Infosys Fines Exec for Tardy Reporting | ETCs bring commodities to ordinary investor |Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Will Launch Today Euronext vows to do merger with NYSE despite opposition The Children’s [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Euronext, India, Investor Relations, Mozilla Corp., nasdaq, nyse, SEC, securities
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