Google’s Early Earnings Release – “Human Error” or Process Problem?

Here’s an interesting story from this week: “Google early earnings release stuns traders.” Reportedly, the Google financial report for Wall Street was mistakenly released EARLY. Instead of releasing after the close of trading, it was sent out by R.R. Donnelly, the company that manages that for Google, just after noon with placeholder text that included “Pending Larry Quote.” This surprised Wall Street, the stock price dropped by almost 10% and trading was halted. What was … Continue reading Google’s Early Earnings Release – “Human Error” or Process Problem?