Announcing material information on Facebook , it stated, does not meet the SEC standard for disclosure.
He held the Centro directors and officers responsible for misstatements and omissions of material information.
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This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company's financial and operating results.
For instance, the material information would come via conference calls or during meetings that were closed to smaller investors.
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Securities laws require publicly held companies to disclose material information that could affect investors' decision to acquire or sell shares.
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Largely, in my opinion, because of SEC disclosure laws regarding the release of material information via press release and wire service.
Moreover, officers of publicly held companies have an obligation to their shareholders to disclose material information regarding cybersecurity risks and incidents.
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Hastings was flagged by the SEC for sharing what the regulator thought was material information that was not available to everyone.
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The use of social media outlets by issuers to disseminate material information also requires investors to distinguish pure advertisement from important information.
The SEC recognized that changes in the ways that people communicate necessitated guidance on the dissemination of material information through social media.
Money managers and pension advisers, whether registered with the SEC or not, frequently misrepresent to pensions material information about their business practices.
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But social media is, in every respect, an essential marketing channel that can be employed productively, once material information has been legally disclosed.
Lacking all of the above material information, you will be forced to rely upon unverified recommendations of the private bankers in making investment decisions.
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Reg FD, as it is known, was enacted Aug. 15, 2000, to prevent companies from selectively disclosing material information to certain analysts or investors.
The subcommittee also found that Mr. Gingrich had provided the committee with material information about one of those projects that was inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable.
This rule is designed to ensure that individual investors have equal access to information as large institutional investors, by prohibiting selective disclosure of material information.
Although the 2004 law obligates claimant advocates not to omit material information, the Social Security Administration doesn't have a definitive policy about what should be submitted.
Nevertheless, efforts have been made to post material information on a blog, and then put out a press release that investors can find it on that blog.
Ironically, an agency created to compel disclosure of material information to investors has morphed into the single most formidable opponent to disclosure of that information to investors.
In the cases prosecutors are able to win, the accused are most often company outsiders who come across undisclosed material information and use it to their advantage.
"I wish to make clear that my firm did not submit any material information to the ethics committee without Mr. Gingrich's prior review and approval, " Baran said.
The SEC thinks Hastings broke disclosure rules (Reg FD) that say companies must make material information available to all investors simultaneously via SEC filing or press release.
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But Labour have accused ministers of failing to "disclose crucial material information" to MPs about the impact on homelessness when they were asked to debate the cap policy.
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They, along with other social media, have been officially deemed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be acceptable venues for companies to disclose material information to investors.
Over the years, the SEC has subtly shifted from its traditional role of compelling disclosure to obstructing efforts to speed and broaden the flow of material information to investors.
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Material information (any news that has a material effect on the business) can be particularly exciting, and should be socialized, but must also meet legal disclosure requirements before that happens.
With more deals--and therefore more advisers, lawyers and other people with inside knowledge of what is to come--regulators are concerned that material information is leaking out and being used improperly.
This office works closely with our Division review staff to monitor whether the documents public companies file with the SEC include disclosure of material information regarding global security risk-related issues.
The complaint alleges that Goldman improperly withheld material information from the buyers by not revealing the role of the short seller in picking the securities that went into the deal.
In 1999, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed and later ratified Regulation Fair Disclosure to address selective releases of material information by publicly traded companies and other issuers.
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