They are currently required to preannounce certain types of stock trades.

Every time you preannounce something this way, sales are delayed."

There have been proposals that insiders be required to preannounce all of their stock trades.

Firms in industries more subject to litigation are more likely to preannounce.

"They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn't preannounce.

Q. In advance of the actual reports, companies often preannounce changes in their profit outlook.

Think about the dogs that did not bark, the companies that did not preannounce bad news last week.

"But we have not had a major technology bellwether preannounce an earnings shortfall, and that has allowed the Nasdaq to resume its leadership role.

We pressed him on it, but all Walls would say is that Intel has no products that he would preannounce.

"So we preannounce.

For them, no news likely means good news, because companies that do not preannounce shortfalls nearly always meet or beat analysts' forecasts when they do report their earnings.

Data General Corp hopes to have 88110-based AViiONs out by the end of the year, but has forborn to preannounce them ahead of time.

Companies trading in the U.S. are required to preannounce stock buyback programs before they begin buying shares, and then to report on such programs in their quarterly and annual filings.

The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company.

The more analysts cover a stock, the more likely the firm is to preannounce, and good preannouncements average releasing half the good news while bad preannouncements average releasing all of the bad news.

The stakes in the video game business, which will have sales this year that surpass Hollywood's box office revenue, have led both Nintendo and Sony to preannounce their machines to build enthusiasm, particularly among the software developers who supply crucial titles.