BREAKING: The SEC has announced broad-based reform proposals for regulations on how companies offer shares and report required information to investors, moving to advance the Trump administration's goal of encouraging more companies to go public on stock markets. If adopted, the changes would greatly expand the number of companies able to issue shares more quickly and less expensively and avail themselves of looser requirements for public disclosure until they reach a higher valuation threshold, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.