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by dan1234 1196 days ago
What is a “company’s 8k”?
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> a filing that companies make to "announce major events that shareholders should know about."

[1] https://www.davemanuel.com/investor-dictionary/form-8-k/

Fun exercise;

Step One: D/load all EDGAR (US SEC) and SEDAR (Canada, TSX) and other exchange filings (each has thousands daily), and spend time learnng the various types (notifications, stock assignments, annual + quarterly reports, technical reports, board changes, etc) and patterns of key information.

Step Two: Magic AI + databases

Step Three: Profit! (or, at the very least a much deeper understanding of energy, resources, and trade flows and activities across the globe).

Bloomberg Terminal (minus the AI woo woo).
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

is a better example of that work from 15+ years back in just the resource sector (minus the AI woo, just with the factoid extraction and additional cross linking to global mineral lease).

It’s a regulatory filing for public companies in the States. It’s one way the officially communicate with their shareholders
Thanks, sometimes business jargon can be pretty difficult to guess!