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Month: April 2022

Stakeholders Continue Board Diversity Push Despite Overturning of California Law

Dedicated readers of this site know that California has served as a bellwether regarding environmental, social and governance issues in the corporate sphere. In one of the landmark developments in legislative efforts to increase diversity,...

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Stock Splits Are All the Rage on Wall Street

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Would you rather have a dollar bill or four quarters? This question doesn’t have a right answer, of course – you have the same amount of money either way. The same principle applies to stock splits, in which the overall value of a stockhold...

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Inflation Worries Rise as Corporations Report Earnings

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In March, the Consumer Price Index rose 8.5% over the year-earlier period. Core prices, which exclude energy and food, climbed 6.5% during the 12-month period. Those are the kinds of numbers that get economists frothing at the mouth about i...

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Twitter Presents Musk with Poison Pill

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Following Elon Musk is exhausting. Absolutely exhausting. Driven by an apparently insatiable need for public attention, the latest in an interminable series of headline-grabbing stunts from the CEO (sorry, “Technoking”) of Tesla involves a...

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Auditing Showdown with China Nearing a Conclusion?

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Remember the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act? Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler warned the world last year that the law, which took effect at the end of 2020, could start causing problems in the United States f...

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