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By IR Web Report on August 4, 2010
NOW that we’ve shown that PR wire services can’t guarantee simultaneous access to disclosure information for all investors, let’s look at why it matters and what you can do to treat all shareholders fairly.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, latency, pr wires, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission
By IR Web Report on August 3, 2010
A SIMPLE analysis of 100 company news releases shows that the average delay between when PR wire services release the information to Wall Street and when most non-professional investors actually have access to it on Yahoo! Finance is just over 83 seconds.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, latency, pr wires, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission
By IR Web Report on April 18, 2010
REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather than paid PR wires to distribute its financial results.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, pubsubhubbub, securities and exchange commission, Thomson Reuters, Web-based disclosure
By IR Web Report on April 16, 2010
GOOGLE INC. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will begin making announcements about its financial performance solely through its investor relations website, making it the most prominent company to take advantage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) guidance on using company websites for disclosure under Regulation FD.
Posted in Articles | Tagged feeds, Investor Relations, pubsubhubbub, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission, web disclosure, web feed, Web-based disclosure
By IR Web Report on April 16, 2009
THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ plan to eliminate rules that currently require listed companies to issue press releases when disclosing important information. The NYSE has filed a proposed rule change (PDF 503KB, 18 pages) to amend its Listed Company Manual to allow listed companies to comply with its immediate release policy by [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, new york stock exchange, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission, wire services
By IR Web Report on March 7, 2009
SPARE a thought for eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) corporate blogger Richard Brewer-Hay. He is the only person on the microblogging service Twitter who live-tweets his company’s quarterly earnings conference calls. That’s partly why I’ve previously called him one of the best corporate bloggers. However, he has been doing these live-tweeting sessions for the past three [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, eBay Inc, Investor Relations, Richard Brewer-Hay, securities and exchange commission, twitter
By IR Web Report on December 11, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet on December 17 to decide whether to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory for public company financial statement information. The move has been widely anticipated following the publication of a rule proposal in May. It was thought by some in the XBRL community that the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, IFRS, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
By IR Web Report on December 3, 2008
BACK in October, we broke the story about the flood of new unsponsored American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) being created without company consent by US banks that are exploiting new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules designed to make the US markets more attractive to foreign companies. At the time of our initial post, almost 500 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, jp morgan, securities and exchange commission, unsponsored ADRs
By IR Web Report on September 11, 2008
UPDATE: SEC spokesman John Heine sent me three emails in response to this article along with additional materials related to the SEC’s own trademark application. A US Patent and Trademark Office document (PDF 228 KB, 12 pages) forwarded to me by Heine says: “The Office records have been searched and there are no similar registered [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged interactive data, Investor Relations, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 8, 2008
THE US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has issued a 5-page briefing on investor relations website practices based on a review they did of the largest 100 US companies’ sites. On one level I can’t help but applaud the guidelines because they are long overdue. Investor relations websites have been around for more than 10 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 25, 2008
AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors. The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 21, 2008
PR NEWSWIRE has trotted out its Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB) to say that they do not see companies changing their disclosure practices any time soon in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent guidance for company websites. They have issued a statement that basically calls for companies to continue to use the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate communications, credibility, Deborah Kelly, disclosure, disclosure practices, genesis inc, goldman sachs, individual investors, Internet, Investor Relations, IR websites, Janet L. Fisher, Jerry Hostetter, John Bierbusse, John L. Kelly, Kurt Stocker, Lou Thompson, Mark Hynes, Martin Shea, Mary Beth Kissane, Mr. Hynes, new york stock exchange, notice-and-access, pr newswire, rss, sanderson farms, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Valerie C. Haertel, William A. Relyea
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2008
I’VE BEEN following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) moves around eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for the past few years and I’m confused about why they chose now to announce that they will be launching a new database to host XBRL for companies and mutual funds. The only real news at the conference, which [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Ed Hodder, finance, IDEA, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, webcast, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 15, 2008
DESPITE a dramatic drop in individual investor participation at companies using the new E-proxy process for their annual meetings, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is studying “rulemaking refinements” that could make it easier for more firms to use the model. Introduced little over one year ago, the E-proxy process allows company investor relations [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, John White, notice-and-access, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder participation
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