WASHINGTON, April 5- A proposal by U.S. securities regulators to require exchanges to improve protection against technology glitches and natural disasters is too narrow and should include more market players, a top New York Stock Exchange official said Friday.
WASHINGTON, April 2- U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that companies can use Twitter, Facebook and other social media to make key announcements as long as they tell investors which sites they will use, an effort to help companies navigate the new media age.
NEW YORK-- Intelsat Global Holdings SA plans to raise as much as $542.5 million from its initial public offering of approximately 21.7 million shares of common stock. The company, which provides satellite services to businesses, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it anticipates pricing the IPO between $21 and $25 per share.
NEW YORK-- Shares of Urban Outfitters Inc. rose in aftermarket trading Monday after the retailer said it is off to a strong start over the first two months of its fiscal first quarter. In a form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Urban Outfitters said sales at locations open at least a year have grown in the high single digits.
NEW YORK, April 1- A judge in New York approved one of two proposed settlements between units of Steven A. Cohen's $15 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over civil charges related to insider trading.
NEW YORK, April 1- A judge in New York approved one of two proposed settlements between units of Steven A. Cohen's $15 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over civil charges related to insider trading.
NEW YORK-- Schlumberger Ltd., the world's biggest oilfield service company, said it is working out a new payment agreement with PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company. Kibsgaard made the remarks at a speech at the Howard Well Conference in New Orleans, a transcription of which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18.
Sullivan in his Thursday ruling sided with the SEC, finding the lawsuit's allegations supported a plausible inference that Syron and Patricia Cook, Freddie Mac's former chief business officer, misrepresented the company's subprime exposure.
NEW YORK, March 28- A judge on Thursday put off a decision on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $602 million insider trading settlement with a unit of SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund, potentially delaying resolution of the litigation for months.
NEW YORK, March 28- A U.S. judge ended a hearing on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $602 million insider trading settlement with a unit of SAC Capital Advisors without making a decision on whether to approve it.
*Company went back-and-forth with SEC for months. NEW YORK, March 27- For months after JPMorgan Chase& Co executives first admitted that they had wrongly brushed off questions about the "London Whale" derivatives losses, officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed the company to disclose more to investors about risks it was taking.
A group led by investment firm Shah Capital Management Inc. that includes UTStarcom Director Hong Liang Lu said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it wants to acquire all of the UTStarcom stock it doesn't already own for $3.20 per share, and take the company private.
NEW YORK, March 27- Nasdaq OMX Group said on Wednesday it filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to extend the deadline for firms to apply for compensation relating to Facebook Inc's problematic IPO to April 8 from March 29.
District Judge Mark Wolf issued an order last week compelling SEC attorney Julie Riewe to explain why her comments about investment adviser Gregg Caplitz did not violate the court's rules prohibiting lawyers from making "extrajudicial statements" that could taint a jury pool.
District Judge Mark Wolf issued an order last week compelling SEC attorney Julie Riewe to explain why her comments about investment adviser Gregg Caplitz did not violate the court's rules prohibiting lawyers from making "extrajudicial statements" that could taint a jury pool.
Legal experts say the SEC attorney has become ensnared in a rare and unusually strict enforcement of a local court rule that some believe is at odds with constitutional protections on free speech.