Do we need quarterly earnings reports?
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Why not report earnings twice a year? The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a proposal to eliminate the requirement for publicly traded companies to report quarterly earnings, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a move that companies are cheering, but it also means less transparency for investors. Also on this morning's show: a preliminary deal between the WNBA and its players' union, and what older adults should keep in mind this tax season.
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| 0:48.4 | The WNBA reaches a deal. How often does corporate America need to spill the beans, and some tax advice? |
| 0:56.9 | From Marketplace, I'm Subrey Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio. The WNBA and its players union have |
| 1:02.6 | reached a preliminary deal less than two months before the women's basketball season is set to tip off. |
| 1:08.6 | The two sides announced they'd come to a verbal agreement. |
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| 1:15.6 | It was after two in New York this morning when the WNBA and the Players Union announced the |
| 1:21.0 | verbal agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. The negotiations had dragged on for months |
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