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Understanding Company News

Autor Rodney Hobson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2010
This book looks at company announcements, focussing on those issued through the London Stock Exchange by listed companies. Almost all these announcements - such as annual results, share buying by directors, profit warnings and updates on current trading - are required under stock exchange rules or European Union directives. This book explains these rules and shows how to make sense of the announcements; enabling investors and others to take informed decisions. The book is divided into three sections: Section A looks at what the rules are, why they have been imposed and how they have evolved to give private investors a much fairer opportunity of competing with professional investors. Section B lists and explains the routine statements that all companies issue on a regular basis: trading statements and profit figures. It tells readers what to look for, explains company jargon and shows how to read between the lines when all is not as well as it seems. Section C considers important announcements, such as profit warnings and directors' share dealings, that are issued on an irregular basis as they arise. It explains which announcements are likely to affect the share price and why. 'Understanding Company News' is for all those baffled shareholders who throw communications from their companies straight into the bin and any investors who read company pronouncements but perhaps naively take everything they see at face value. And anyone working in related industries looking to untangle these company announcements will also find this book extremely valuable.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906659226
ISBN-10: 1906659222
Pagini: 231
Dimensiuni: 139 x 218 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: HARRIMAN HOUSE LTD
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Rodney Hobson is an experienced financial journalist who has held senior editorial positions with publications in the UK and Asia, most recently as Editor of Hemscott, the financial news and information website.

Among posts he has held are News Editor for the Business section of The Times, Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor, Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Head of News at Citywire and Editor of Shares magazine. He has also contributed to the Daily Mail, the Independent and Business Franchise Magazine.

He is registered as a Representative with the Financial Services Authority.

Rodney is married with one daughter.

Descriere

The author of "Shares Made Simple" and "Small Companies, Big Profit" is back with this essential read for all private investors. Containing everything from the rules companies must follow to how investors can benefit from company news, this book is a necessary resource.