Bush says lawsuits, regulations hurting markets
Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:40am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that an excessive number of lawsuits and overregulation were hurting the competitiveness of U.S. financial markets.
"America's capital markets are the deepest, the broadest and the most efficient in the world," Bush said in his "State of the Economy" speech delivered at the landmark Federal Hall on Wall Street.
"Yet, excessive litigation and overregulation threaten to make our financial markets less attractive to investors, especially in the face of rising competition from capital markets abroad," he said.
Bush called for changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate regulation, saying that Section 404 of the law has been "costly for businesses and may be discouraging companies from listing on stock exchanges.
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