The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) secured a court order Tuesday to freeze the assets of a China-based trader in connection with a probe into market activity related to Qihoo 360 Technolo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
... ned in US securities filings, Bloomberg News reported. Overseas operations have helped the company cut more than US$3.5 billion off its income tax bills in the past six years, Wal-Mart's annual report ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
... sdaq into second place. The problem isn’t fears about the Chinese economy, either. China’s GDP growth may be slowing, but its GDP growth rate is still twice that of the US. Nor is the problem lack of ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... ed States Securities and Exchange Commission. The transfer slashed Gates's stake in the company he co-founded to 3 percent. That still leaves him with a net worth of US$82.9 billion, making him the we ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
United States securities regulators and the Chinese affiliates of the big four accounting firms are nearing agreement on a high-profile dispute that could have derailed the audits and fundraising of d ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States slapped a fine of US$135 million on cosmetics direct-selling giant Avon Products to settle a corruption probe in China. The global beauty su ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
Two years ago, Hong Kong’s market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, took accounting firm Ernst & Young to court to force it to reveal information on a Chinese utility company that ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
... th the US Securities and Exchange Commission over approval of its prospectus, the report said. Alibaba's recent acquisition spree and its unique governance model may be slowing the approval process, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
... Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made such an argument in a recent congressional testimony, in the context of explaining why the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) should be allowed to consider ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
The end of China’s 14-month-long freeze in initial public offerings in January, following reforms initiated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has been accompanied by a flurry of listings ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Chinese animal-feed and hog-production company and several of its former top officials, alleging that they orchestrated or failed to sto ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-12
The Big Four global accounting firms said on Thursday they plan to appeal against a ruling by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recommending the suspension of the firms' China units for ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-23
The Chinese units of the top four global accounting firms -- PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, KPMG and Ernst & Young -- should be suspended from auditing US-traded companies for s ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-23
... Former US securities watchdog head calls for minority shareholder protection in HK Interview: Hong Kong should set up its own regime to protect the interests of minority shareholders before it conside ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-22
