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What Investors Need To Know About Company News : How to Make the Most of Company Announcements and News
By: Hobson, Rodney (Author).
Harriman House Publishing. Published: 23/11/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Paperback. Sourced from U.S.A.
In the follow up to 'Shares Made Simple' and 'Small Companies, Big Profits' experienced financial journalist Rodney Hobson provides investors with keys to understanding and interpreting company news and announcements.
With details of the rules that companies must follow to the impact that the modern media has had on these announcements, through to a discussion of how investors can use company news as part of their investment strategy, this guide is essential reading for all private investors. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 1906659222/9781906659226
TITLE: What Investors Need to Know About Company News
CONTRIBUTORS: Hobson, Rodney (Author)
IMPRINT: Harriman House Publishing
PUBLISHER: Harriman House Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE: 23/11/2009
SUBJECT: Business, Industry & Management, Business, Industry & Management, Finance & Accounting, Investment & Securities
PAGES: 152
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
CONTENTS: Section A - The rules Chapter one - The right to be informed - Why we need a set of rules covering stock market announcements - What would happen if we did not have announcements - How the stock exchange was transformed - EU harmonisation Chapter two - The rules that companies must follow - The regulations covering company announcements - Keeping a level playing field - The role of the house broker and other advisers including financial PRs - What companies are obliged to tell shareholders - The obligation to keep all analysts covering a particular stock equally informed - What happens when a company hosts a site visit for fund managers and journalists. Chapter three - RNS and alternative news sources - What is RNS, when did it start and how it was established to disseminate information rapidly and effectively? - The effect of computers and modern telecoms in spreading news - How private investors can use the internet to filter out announcements that they are interested in - How quickly can private investors gain access to announcements? Section B - Regular statements Chapter four - Trading statements Chapter five - Profit figures Section C - One-off statements Chapter six - Alerts - Unusual movement in share price - Profit and trading alerts Chapter seven - Takeover approaches - Receiving and making approaches * Understanding the statement issued when a bid lapses Chapter eight - Directors' deals - How reliable a guide are they to how the company is doing? - The distortion caused by the exercising of share options and selling the shares immediately - The dangers of shares overhanging the market Chapter nine - other non-routine issues - Share placings and rights issues, appointments and resignations of directors, AGM and EGM voting Section D - Trading tips Chapter ten - Does it work? - How news slips out despite stringent controls - Examples of where the market got it wrong - Sifting facts from rumours Chapter eleven - Golden rules Appendix - The rules on announcements - Text of The European Transparency Directive
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