Current Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman William Donaldson is resigning from the position. He said that he will be stepping down from the agency on June 30.

President Bush nominated California Congressman Chris Cox for the empty Securities and Exchange Commission chief slot left open by outgoing William Donaldson. Bush sung Cox’s praises as a “champion of free enterprise”.

Heavy lobbying by major accounting firms to rollback or weaken the Sarbanes-Oxley act draws the chairman’s response.

Raytheon Company has submitted an offer of settlement to the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)…

Flowserve has reached a settlement with the SEC resolving an investigation by the commission into a meeting that took place in Irving, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2002.

Time Warner announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the proposed settlement, which resolves the SEC’s investigation of the Company.

Time Warner has agreed to pay a $300 million settlement stemming from charges the company faced for incorrectly stating online advertising revenues and the number of subscribers to their Internet service.

Bank of America settled with the SEC for $515 million, and five former employees of the bank’s mutual fund unit were charged for trading abuses.

You’d think some people would learn – you don’t try to circumvent SEC rules. You’ll likely get caught and the penalty will be much more than any gain you may have achieved.

Attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission toward the safety of stun guns caused Taser stock to take a dive.

The Wall Street Journal reports that communication among investors, Wall Street stock underwriters and issuers are in for major modernization …

In an effort to offer investors up to $400 million of its common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities and warrants, Ask Jeeves has filed a Form S-3 with the SEC. Once the SEC declares the filing effective, Ask Jeeves will be allowed to offer the requested amount of stock.

Citing volatile trading, the SEC has launched an informal probe concerning the activity of Mamma.com’s stock. Stock prices for the Canadian-based search engine have quadrupled in the past month.