The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking candidates for appointment to the Investor Advisory Committee to help protect investors and improve securities regulations. The committee was established under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and…
Tech stocks have been plunging as Wall Street obsesses over the Federal Reserve’s next moves and how aggressively it will hike borrowing costs over the next 12 months to rein in inflation.
But attention could soon shift elsewhere as corporate earnings season arrives, delivering a distraction from the economy and the unknowns that lie ahead.
What’s happening: S&P 500 earnings are expected to have increased by 22.4% compared to the previous year during the final three months of 2021, according to Refinitiv. That would be a strong showing.
In a note to clients on Friday, UBS said that despite a volatile start to the year, it does not think a more hawkish Fed will “derail” the stock market rally, and that earnings season will “turn investor attention back to robust fundamentals.”
Bill Singer posts about the overkill by FINRA Enforcement in obtaining a default order against an 89 year old registered representative who had been out of the business for 17 months.
No one disputes FINRA’s need to sanction those who do not make timely disclosures on their CRD filings, but “Four Enforcement attorneys, one OHO Hearing Officer, pre-hearings, an Order to Show Cause, a show-cause hearing, a default hearing, a DEFAULT DECISION, and a raging Covid pandemic — and all of that to go after an 89-year-old Respondent who had been in our biz since 1970 and was last terminated in July 2020.”
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of more than $13 million to a whistleblower whose information and assistance prompted the opening of an investigation and significantly contributed to the success of an SEC enforcement…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Australian citizen Craig Sproule and two companies he founded, Crowd Machine, Inc. and Metavine, Inc., for making materially false and misleading statements in connection with an…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against three Florida residents for trading in advance of market moving announcements involving DSW Inc., Rite Aid Corporation, and an attempt to acquire Aphria Inc., a Canadian cannabis-…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Allen C. Giltman, a former registered investment professional, with allegedly participating in a long-running fraudulent scheme to lure investors into buying fictitious certificates of deposit (CDs).…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Medallion Financial Corp., a Delaware company headquartered in New York, NY, and its President and Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Murstein of New York, NY, with illegally engaging in two schemes in an…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed amendments to its rules regarding disclosure about an issuer’s repurchases of its equity securities, often referred to as buybacks. “Share buybacks have become a significant component of how public…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against five Russian nationals for engaging in a multi-year scheme to profit from stolen corporate earnings announcements obtained by hacking into the systems of two U.S.-based filing…