Welcome to winter, Southeast Ohio. Consistently cold weather, including double-digit (below zero) wind chills, in the last few weeks has already led to school closings for the Noble County area in the new year. The Caldwell and Noble Local school districts, which were scheduled to return to classes last Wednesday following holidayâ¦
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of eleven states, two additional public land grant universities, and one private research university.
The acronym SEC stands for Securities and Exchange Commission. The basic role of this agency is to ensure that the stock markets operate in a way that is fair to all investors. One of the major things that the SEC is supposed to do is to prevent insider trading. In insider trading, people who know what is going to happen with some business (like that it is going to merge with some other business) use that knowledge to know whether to buy or sell stocks in those firms.