Elon Musk’s decision to move Twitter’s corporate headquarters from Delaware to Nevada could add fuel to a growing trend: companies ditching the First State for the Silver State to seek a friendlier jurisdiction from investor lawsuits and cheaper fees.

Shareholder lawyers are hoping that the Delaware Chancery Court is so concerned about encroachment on its turf that it will block TripAdvisor Inc (TRIP.O) and its parent corporation from transferring their incorporation from Delaware to Nevada.

Twitter Inc. has told the courts that it has a new company name in a new state: X Corp., an entity incorporated in Nevada instead of Twitter’s previous domicile in Delaware.

Kathy Piniewski is adamant that she wasn’t looking for her investments to make her rich. Piniewski, who worked in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., while spending part of each year in Florida, told WealthManagement.com she’d managed her retirement savings well—she had an IRA and annuity through Bank of America.

Corporate political donations now raise a mix of ethical, legal, and business issues.

When the Biden administration nominated Gary Gensler to be SEC chair, Knut Rostad had high hopes that the agency would fortify fiduciary duty, the standard of care for investment advisers that he has devoted his professional life to defending.

Back in November 2021, cryptocurrencies, which saw a huge surge during most of the pandemic, suddenly began to nosedive. Joe Hovde, a New York-based data scientist, decided that this might be his moment to buy into crypto: He took a risk on the price plunge and bought some Ethereum, the next most popular crypto asset after Bitcoin, on Coinbase, a crypto exchange. 

A major modification to the proposal would allow state regulators to participate in arbitration hearings that determine whether to clear a broker's record of a customer dispute.