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David ‘Wayne’ Lanier SURF CITY — David “Wayne” Lanier, 65, died suddenly Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at “The Man Building” in Surf City. Wayne was born Jan. 16, 1956, the son of the late D.C. and Wilma Brown Lanier. Wayne is survived by his wife of 33 years, Robin Best Lanier; daughter, Jordan Lanier Barkman; son-in-law, Brian Barkman; grandson, Lanier Mac Barkman; and a second grandson who is expected to arrive in September. He is also survived by his three sisters, Elizabeth Outlaw, Donna Lanier and Sandra Raynor, and their families. He had numerous nieces and nephews that he love...

Tech your username On March 5 , the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it charged AT&T, Inc. and its investor relations executives, Christopher Womack, Michael Black, and Kent Evans, with multiple violations of an agency fair disclosure rule after the executives reportedly held private calls with industry analysts during which they selectively disclosed financial results. The Southern District of New York filing explained that the goal of the SEC rule at issue, Regulation FD (fair disclosure), is to buoy investor confidence by prohibiting selective disclosures like those made...

By Aaron Nicodemus2021-03-08T18:33:00+00:00 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused AT&T of selectively disclosing material nonpublic information regarding poor smartphone sales to research analysts, in violation of the regulation that requires such information to be made public. In March 2016, three AT&T investor relations executives made a round of calls to 20 research analysts, the SEC said, disclosing information regarding internal company data showing a steeper-than-expected decline in smartphone sales for the first quarter. The internal data regarding the sales was not ...

The pattern is familiar. A company reports seemingly acceptable numbers and its share price does an odd lurch on the stock exchange – all because it missed analyst expectations. With the influence they wield, equity analysts have the power to wipe billions of dollars off a company's market value in the time it takes to read the first sentence of an earnings report. That explains why they are vigorously courted by the organizations they cover. In the case of AT&T, a little too vigorously, perhaps. The giant US telco stands accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – a fina...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing AT&T and three of its investor relations executives.