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Category: Risk Factors

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Companies Shrug at Tariffs in Latest Quarterly Reports

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Earlier this month, we told you about some of the perplexed responses in companies’ disclosures regarding the federal government’s tariff policy. Weeks later, issuers continue to express their befuddlement over the impact of U.S. trade poli...

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Disclosures Reveal Companies’ Early Reactions to U.S. Tariff Policy

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The financial markets have had about a month to digest the impact of the federal government’s new tariffs on the outlook for the global economy. Meanwhile, individual companies have been sorting out what the new tariffs on goods imported fr...

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Companies Scramble to Account for Impact of Tariffs

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Back in the 1980s, one of the more popular series of children’s books was called Choose Your Own Adventure. Rather than telling a linear story, the books essentially offered readers a chance to build their own narratives by choosing from di...

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Trump’s Turnaround on Tariffs Heightens Uncertainty for Companies

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Sometimes events come along to remind companies and the people who invest in them that the assumptions underpinning their plans are tenuous. In his 2003 book “A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market,” Temple University professor John Allen P...

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Corporate Strategies Evolve Amid DEI Policy Shifts

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In the wake of events like the protests that erupted in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, major corporations responded en masse by touting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs – commonly referred to as DEI....

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