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A trail of letters…

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Last week, the SEC ended its nearly six-month long correspondence with electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY). Not familiar with this? That’s because Best Buy never mentioned that the letters existed, so they only became available once the SEC completed its investigation.
But going back and reading the now-available letters is pretty interesting. Start on March 2, [...]

We’re not the only one asking the questions anymore…

Friday, August 31st, 2007

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that nearly 300 U.S. companies received a faxed letter from the SEC today asking them to better explain the pay packages of top executives. The letters are in response to the SEC’s review of many companies’ first stab at the new executive compensation disclosure rules that went into [...]

Pre-vacation filing frenzy?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

It’s hard to know whether the flurry of press releases coming out of the SEC over the past few days is due to a pre-vacation rush (after all, Congress takes most of the month of August off) or some sort of end of the month quota — you know, like the one that cops are [...]

Five of a kind…

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Yesterday, the SEC announced that it had released a new tool that would make it easier for investors to figure out which companies do business with countries that are on the State Department’s official “state sponsors of terrorism” list: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. The list is based on the company’s disclosures in [...]

Whole blogging…

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

We take a break from our usual trawl through SEC filings to take a look at something that hasn’t been filed: this blog post from Whole Foods (WFMI) CEO John Mackey, which went up late yesterday on Mackey’s blog. The post, which responds to some unflattering quotes that the Federal Trade Commission says that Mackey [...]