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By Dominic Jones 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 [...]
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By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2009
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider. On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following: “In compliance with the U.S. Securities and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services
By Dominic Jones on May 16, 2007
By Dominic Jones I DREW attention yesterday to the fact that Thomson Financial’s corporate investor relations and public relations businesses don’t fit well in the structure outlined in the Thomson-Reuters acquisition announcement. According to the companies, the combined Reuters and Thomson Financial business will be guided by journalistic principles, such as integrity, independence and freedom [...]
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By Dominic Jones on May 11, 2007
By Dominic Jones HERE’s a great example of “over-disclaimering,” which is the senseless practice of slapping disclaimers on things that don’t need them. The most common example is when companies include disclaimers about forward-looking statements (FLS) in news releases that don’t include any forward-looking statements. Sometimes the disclaimer portion of the news release is longer [...]
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By Dominic Jones on March 27, 2007
By Dominic Jones PROPONENTS of changing the information distribution requirements of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) say the world is ready to receive disclosures direct via companies’ websites rather than via intermediaries like news release distributors. As evidence, they point to widespread adoption of the Internet and email by investors, plus the availability of new [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 23, 2007
Note: After receiving an email from a mutual acquaintance of someone mentioned in the original of this article, I’ve made a minor edit to remove an individual’s name. Seems information was sent to me from Business Wire under the name of an employee per their normal routine, but that individual didn’t personally send it to [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones THERE’s a lot of talk these days from the big wire services about “social media news releases.” However, almost all of it is meaningless because people are mostly trying to reinvent something that is actually obsolete. Newswires have latched onto social media releases because they’re looking for ways to stay relevant in [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2006
By Dominic Jones NASDAQ has sparked an uproar among its listed firms and investor relations service providers with a proposal to bundle news releases and website services into its listing fees. We cover the furor over the proposal in a separate story. In this article, I want to address a question posed by at least [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, Europe, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, market intelligence services, market intelligence tools, nasdaq, news releases, newswire services, PrimeZone, privacy, rss, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, website services, wire services
By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2006
By IR Web Report Staff (Update added Dec. 14) THE Nasdaq Stock Market has provoked an unprecedented uproar among its listed companies over a proposal to raise its listing fees and force them to pay for investor relations services from firms the exchange owns. In a major embarrassment for the exchange, dozens of investor relations [...]
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By Dominic Jones on November 15, 2006
Update: Please see the comments by Dave Armon, COO of PR Newswire at the end of this post. Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Open Source Officer, has also commented. While neither Simon nor I agree with Dave’s position, his willingness to take us on in such a public forum is a credit to him and [...]
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By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006
By Dominic Jones (1 update added) WHY do companies issue full-text earnings releases via newswire services? Except for bloating the bottom lines of the newswires, who actually benefits from this practice? Sun Microsystems Inc.’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the SEC to ask the same thing. I’ve chimed in with how I think companies [...]
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By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006
By Dominic Jones (1 update added) SUN Microsystems’ CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission to argue that website postings should be recognized as full and fair disclosure under securities regulations. In essence, he is arguing that by posting material information on its website, a company achieves a level of dissemination [...]
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