Every three months, we get another round of financial updates from publicly traded companies like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon, but the Trump Administration is pushing to lower that requirement to every six months. The argument in favor of changing it claims that quarterly reporting is a burden on small or medium-sized companies, despite the risks of weaker monitoring, as Reuters and WSJ report. [Link: SEC Proposes Amendments to Permit Optional Semiannual Reporting by Public Companies | https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-42-sec-proposes-amendments-permit-optional-semiannual-reporting-public-companies | SEC.gov]

The SEC formally proposed a rule change that would allow companies to file semiannual reports on a new form, 10-S, in place of the traditional quarterly10-Qs

Every three months, we get another round of financial updates from publicly traded companies like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon, but the Trump Administration is pushing to lower that…