By injecting hidden risk into the financial statements of the listed companies monitored by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Supreme Court may have set the stage for the next recession.
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The 6-3 Supreme Court ruling could create new risks for unwary investors – and a new reason for them to invest in index funds.
Climate disclosure rules are meant to help investors understand their risks, but they come with costs for companies, as a finance scholar explains.
Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
US regulators are beginning bringing more enforcement actions against crypto firms, with the latest targeting top exchange Binance.
A review of S&P 500 companies finds carbon disclosure doesn’t necessarily mean emissions fall.
Public companies have many governance safeguards that private ones lack, such as independent oversight and transparency.
Some investors want publicly traded companies to disclose their full climate impact, including emissions from their supply chains and product use.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is pushing for a ban on active trading by members of Congress following accusations that some of their colleagues may have engaged in insider trading.
Giving away stock that has soared and that the donor has owned for at least a year makes the biggest dent in what share the IRS takes.
Recent reporting suggests Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented different versions of the company’s policies in private and public. That could draw the scrutiny of regulators.
Publicly traded companies must have independent oversight and make regular financial and other disclosures. The Trump Organization has none of these safeguards.
The easy answer as to why trading was halted relates to the stock’s ‘volatility’ after its dramatic climb in recent weeks. But it could also mean something fishy is going on.
Insider trading, like what Rep. Chris Collins is accused of engaging in, is one of the sexier crimes in securities law.
Tokens, the next stage in the development of blockchain technologies, can help expand blockchains’ uses beyond simply exchanging money.
In giving Dodd-Frank the Botox treatment, Congress misses the point of what’s wrong with financial regulation: It’s an old mess.
Within the world of cryptocurrencies, ICOs are the way to raise funds – but without any government oversight.
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
The Trump administration may reverse a recent push to require oil companies to disclose more information about climate change risks to investors. Is that a good thing?
The SEC and others are pressing Exxon to disclose more climate change risks to investors. But new research suggests shareholders are already pricing in those costs on their own.
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