Five More Minutes for the NYSE

In August, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to postpone what time public companies disclose their end-of-day news. The NYSE proposed that companies should only release this information at 4:05 p.m. Eastern...

A Rise in Shareholder Activism

Shareholder activism is a method used whereby shareholders invest in a public company for the purpose of influencing or changing a company’s behavior, financial structure, business strategies, and overall management. Individual activists or hedge fund activists will...