SEC

If people were going to wager on who would make more money in the stock market over 15 years, an experienced trader or a baby, most people would probably bet on the grownup.

Publicly traded companies under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are required to disclose material information to all investors at the same time, a rule called Regulation Fair Disclosure, a measure enacted in 2000 in order to prevent selective disclosure that could lead some investors to have an unfair advantage over others.

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has offered the U.S.

An article in Slate argues that while it's good that the SEC is cracking down on Chinese accounting firms, it is probably too little, too late at this point and that the most the commission can hope for at this point is a moral victory. This is because, argues the author, Chinese companies are already well established in U.S.

Mary Miller, currently the undersecretary of domestic finance at the U.S.

Mary Schapiro, current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will step down from her position after four years of serving as the head of a major component of the U.S. financial regulatory system, according to the New York Times. Schapiro, according to the Times, was widely known to be exhausted by her tenure at the SEC and has been telegraphing her desire to leave for more than a year.