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President Trump wants companies to report earnings less often. Good idea?

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 17, 2018
There’s a dance called earnings season that happens in the corporate world every three months. Public companies are required to open their books and add up all those debits and credits so that investors, analysts, and the media can comb through their financial statements. President Donald Trump on Friday said he’s asked the Securities and […]
US President Donald Trump, center, hosts a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 16, 2018 in Washington, DC. 
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Will new IPO rules encourage more public offerings?

by Adriene Hill
Jul 10, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to encourage more companies to go public. More IPOs, the thinking goes, can be good for the economy. Starting today, the government has instituted a new rule allowing all companies, regardless of their size, to file IPO paperwork confidentially. The filings don’t become public until about 15 days before […]
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Trump set to reshape the Wall Street regulation?

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 23, 2017
The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing Thursday on Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Clayton does not have a track record in Washington, and that makes it difficult to know if he shares Trump’s distaste for government regulation. But we can tell something […]
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Trump picks a Wall Street lawyer to head the SEC

by Lizzie O'Leary
Jan 4, 2017
Jay Clayton could be instrumental in undoing Dodd-Frank.
President-elect Donald Trump waves to the crowd while being introduced to speak to supporters at the Giant Center, December 15, 2016 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. 
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SEC Chair Mary Jo White to step down

by Kimberly Adams
Nov 15, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump and Congress will need to fill three out of five seats in the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC's Mary Jo White testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. 
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Adding value by slowing things down?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 17, 2016
IEX, a market with a 350 microsecond delay, could make a difference to investors.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The IEX would be a new market to trade on with a 350 microsecond delay. 
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It's surprisingly hard to figure out what big banks spend to follow the rules

by Tony Wagner
Apr 13, 2016
But even if we did, would it matter?
A man walks past JP Morgan Chase's corporate headquarters in New York City.
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Company tests new waters for small-scale investors

by Marketplace Contributor
Nov 10, 2015
Groundfloor lets non-accredited investors get in on small-scale real estate deals.
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Five years on, Dodd-Frank still controversial

by Kimberly Adams
Jul 21, 2015
Regulators are still writing rules for the financial reform law.
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Why the SEC is all about 'broken windows'

by Tracey Samuelson
Sep 11, 2014
The SEC employs an enforcement strategy coined in the 1980s.
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