{"id":17411,"date":"2010-08-26T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17411"},"modified":"2010-08-26T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T10:48:03","slug":"investors-gain-new-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/investors-gain-new-clout.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors Gain New Clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSN &#8211; Shareholders won greater clout to place directors on corporate boards Wednesday, marking the latest victory for the &#8220;shareholder rights&#8221; movement that has gradually chipped away power from top executives running U.S. corporations.<\/p>\n<p>But a party-line split vote at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a denunciation of the new rule by a Republican commissioner who suggested it is illegal, points to new skirmishes ahead. Public companies, including some of the country&#8217;s largest, also hope to strike down the rule, which they say will be used to distract management and advance special-interest agendas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.uk.msn.com\/wall-street-journal.aspx?cp-documentid=154503101\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN &#8211; Shareholders won greater clout to place directors on corporate boards Wednesday, marking the latest victory for the &#8220;shareholder rights&#8221; movement that has gradually chipped away power from top executives running U.S. corporations. But a party-line split vote at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17412,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions\/17412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}