SEC Website Allows Investors to Obtain Corporate Disclosures on Business with State Sponsors of Terror

In the latest of a series of steps to use the Internet and interactive computer technology to make public company disclosures more accessible to investors, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today announced that the SEC has added to its Web site a software tool that permits investors to obtain information directly from company disclosure documents about their business interests in countries the U.S. Secretary of State has designated “State Sponsors of Terrorism.”  The information comes from the companies’ most recent annual reports as filed with the SEC.

Five countries are currently on the U.S. State Department list: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. (In addition to its support for terrorism, the Sudanese government has also been widely recognized as complicit in genocidal activities in Sudan’s Darfur region.) See SEC Adds Software Tool for Investors Seeking Information on Companies’ Activities in Countries Known to Sponsor Terrorism.