US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission sues AutoChina and 11 investors over alleged stock manipulation.

A provision of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform act proposes that public companies disclose the ratio of the CEO's pay to that of the median salary of company workers. But two years after Dodd-Frank was passed, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not yet implemented the rule or initiated the rule-making process. Business groups have opposed the rule, while advocates for corporate reform have pressured the regulatory agency to work quickly.

A provision of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform act proposes that public companies disclose the ratio of the CEO's pay to that of the median salary of company workers. But two years after Dodd-Frank was passed, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not yet implemented the rule or initiated the rule-making process. Business groups have opposed the rule, while advocates for corporate reform have pressured the regulatory agency to work quickly.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is offering a $2.65 per share stock dividend to all company employees while forgoing his own shares — a move that will likely cost him $75 million, according to the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “At Mr. Cook’s request,...

Burma is to get a new stock exchange, after the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Daiwa Securities Group agree a deal to set one up by 2015.