The last thing this market needs is to eliminate the quarterly reporting of earnings.

Standard items of quarterly reporting will include:

This including quarterly reporting of their key emissions and a vision which describes success in terms other than just profit maximisation.

'Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price,' he said.

Now that he is back to quarterly reporting, he is bolstering his large-cap stock allocation and generally taking a more bullish stance.

This system is based on quarterly reporting by the regional health authorities.

Unfortunately, as he said, there are other players in the market who will "punish" companies based on their quarterly reporting.

"We welcome the concessions that have been made for quarterly reporting," a spokesman for the London exchange, Ian Campbell, said.

"Our database is built around quarterly reporting, which isn't available in many emerging-markets countries," Mr. Kopinski said.

We could also agree with mechanisms to establish customs surveillance on imports covered by the regulation, linked with quarterly reporting.