SEC seeks to update stock sale rules
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BEIJING, Aug.18 (Xinhuanet) -- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may revise its rules on initial stock offerings to modernize 1930s-era guidelines, agency commissioners and staff said.
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The U.S. presidential election in November could force change at the top of the Securities and Exchange Commission and help decide the fate of a reform effort to give shareholders more boardroom power.
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WASHINGTON: Companies selling stock to the American public would be allowed to talk much more freely about it, and even advertise, under a proposal given preliminary approval on Tuesday by federal regulators.
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SHANGHAI China&#39;s securities regulator said Tuesday that it had suspended approval of initial public offerings pending rule changes that would let the market set the price of new shares, revamping a system criticized for inflating company values and
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The commission proposed changes Tuesday to decades-old rules that would allow companies planning new stock offerings to share far more information with investors about the state of their businesses.
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NYSE Group , which operates the  New York Stock Exchange, has requested relief for one month  from compliance with certain securities regulations taking  effect on Monday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote Wednesday to prohibit mutual fund companies from funneling stock trades to brokerage firms that agree to promote their funds to investors.
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson said yesterday that he wants to move ahead this year with a plan that would allow dissatisfied shareholders to propose board candidates under limited conditions.
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The U.S. Securities and  Exchange Commission aims to issue guidelines on the appropriate  timing for companies to issue stock options this summer when it  proposes new rules dealing with executive compensation, SEC  Chairman Christopher Cox said on Monday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission will propose soon a plan to tighten governance at the nation&#39;s stock exchanges to ensure they are serving the public interest, SEC Chairman William Donaldson said Friday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday proposed that stock markets disclose more information about their operations, including executive pay and regulatory programs.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 8 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether more than a dozen big brokerage firms failed to execute certain trades at the best possible prices for individual investors, sources familiar with the probe said.
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Federal regulators proposed Tuesday to loosen the &quot;quiet period&quot; rule, a Depression-era regulation meant to prevent companies poised to sell stock or bonds to the public from promoting the securities.
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Artificially boosting demand for initial public stock offerings and ramping up related commissions would be restricted under rules proposed yesterday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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New rules aim to keep brokerages on the straight and narrow.
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The Boston office of the Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a &quot;mini-sweep&quot; of about two dozen mutual fund companies, to hunt for any improper trading by fund managers, traders, and other high-ranking insiders over the past three years, two SEC officials confirmed.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a plan yesterday to allow companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange to retain their three-letter ticker symbols should they transfer to Nasdaq.