Jagdish Teja, CFA, is a buy-side analyst covering the furniture industry in a large investment management firm. She is invited to attend a conference call meeting with the top executives of a large furniture manufacturing company and four buy-side analysts. During the meeting, the CEO mentions that they have just calculated the company's earnings for the past quarter and they have unexpectedly and significantly dropped. The CFO adds that this drop will not be released to the public until next week. According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, Tejas' most appropriate initial course of action would be to:（）
A. encourage the company to make the information public as soon as possible.
B. disclose the information to her firm's compliance department personnel.
C. disclose the information to five equally important sell-side analysts so that the information is distributed in an equitable manner.
