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It’s a bad time to cut information from Corporate America
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The move to reduce US corporate reporting to twice a year instead of quarterly would cause investors to have less market insight.
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Jeff Sommer
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There’s a time for everything. This isn’t the time to make reliable information about the markets and the economy even harder to find.
With a US government shutdown under way, crucial reports, including one on jobs and unemployment, simply aren’t available. Even before the shutdown, the Trump administration had been making it increasingly difficult for the public to obtain solid official data on a wide range of subjects.
