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Market Watch 1

Market Watch: Regulation of the Stock Market
Samuel Thomas
Legal Environment
Bus670
Professor Gittens

Market Watch 2

The Enrons and Worldcoms made it clear that the financial markets cannot be left under the auspices of corporate directors and officers, without oversight authority. "The corporate abuses and fraud that Enron exemplified, while not a first in the financial markets, they were certainly a first in terms of the magnitude of the losses to stockholders and the confidence the public reposed in the financial sector (Bequai 2003)." As a result of the stock market crash of 1929 regulations such as the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 were established to prevent such practices as those that contributed to the downfalls of Enron and Worldcom.
In this report, I will briefly explore some popular reasons why the market crash of 1929 happened, events leading the market crash and regulations the government......

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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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