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Given the company's prior accounting and regulatory issues, this is likely to have a meaningful negative impact on the stock today.

Freddie Mac ( FRE ) takes these issues, which relate to prior management of both the company and its government relations operation, very seriously. The settlement announced today is part of the company's ongoing efforts to put behind us regulatory and legal issues dating back to 2003 and earlier.

It is definitely the way things are going, but a year-end target sounds a bit aggressive. You have the currency issues and the accounting issues and you still have the regulatory issues, and in some countries there are issues about foreign ownership on stock. I think it's a lot easier to have foreign investors buying U.S. stocks rather than the other way around.

[Payne's second selection is travel firm Cendant.] It has four or five different household names in terms of travel. When Enron popped up, this stock went from $21 to $15 almost for no reason except they were guilty of some accounting issues in the past, ... I think the company is starting to recoup its reputation. I think when the stock gets above $20 it's going to attract a lot of buyers.

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Wal-Mart is a more mature company today and is showing its willingness to be more open with the press, ... From investors' point of view, this is very good news. All the negative publicity has pressured the stock. Maybe this move will help take away some of that 'headline' risk acting on the stock.

Since one of these possibilities would be negative for the stock (earnings miss), two would be neutral, positive, or negative (acquisition, management change), and one would probably be positive (takeout / strategic investment), it is hard to know what the impact on the stock might be.

The settlement announced today is part of the company's ongoing efforts to put behind us regulatory and legal issues dating back to 2003 and earlier.

There are a lot of accounting issues that have taken place under prior management that haven't gone away and don't appear to be dissipating.

Todd Rosenbluth

The next time one of my clients gets named in a regulatory complaint, the resolution should be that the penny-stock company should spend millions on furniture and liquor for the company, and we'll settle the case,

The company's top priorities have been to improve our financial position and resolve regulatory issues facing the company,

[The Financial Accounting Standards Board—the group that sets American accounting standards—has voted to examine stock options as it grapples with pressure from investors to reform option accounting.] This is monumental, ... This sets in motion the move to expense stock options. A while back this would have been a death wish on the part of the FASB but now the environment has changed.

I think with regard to this issue, last week was really the news rather than today. Xerox has been turning things around, other than their accounting, by cutting costs. With regard to accounting issues, I would say they've been closely scrutinized.

This is a just a first pass at a set of research that we are going to pursue as a group here in the accounting department, trying to understand the issues surrounding media and governance. For example, we are also analyzing interviews and other communication in an effort to detect lying by corporate officers. Such research promises to provide new insights in predicting accounting restatements, fraud, and stock price performance.

For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory issues.

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