SARBOX ISN'T REALLY DRIVING STOCKS AWAY Despite the doomsayers, many foreign companies are rushing to list on U.S. exchanges

• Published in: Bloomberg businessweek (Online) no. 4041; p. 87
• Main Author: By Joseph Weber, with Xiang Ji in Hong Kong
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Bloomberg Finance LP 02.07.2007
• Subjects: Business conditions; Initial public offerings; Public Company Accounting Reform & Investor Protection Act 2002-US; Statistical data; Stock exchanges; United States > US

Politicians from both parties say the U.S. capital markets are being suffocated by regulation. In town meetings, op-ed pieces, and industry gatherings, they have attacked the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other corporate reforms for driving companies away from U.S. stock exchanges to other, more bu...