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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedShort-Selling Tick Tests on the Front Burner.(laws and rules and testing of prices of securities trading)
Traders, May, 2007 by Chapman, Peter
Should market makers be able to short small-cap stocks on a downtick? Should exchanges be able to regulate short selling at all? Will the Securities and Exchange Commission green-light full-blown short selling by July 9, the day Regulation NMS goes into effect for broker-dealers?
Those are three of the more important questions outstanding in the wake of the SEC's proposal to permit unfettered short selling across stocks of all sizes. The regulator made its proposal last December, after sifting through data and observations made during the two-year-old Regulation SHO pilot.
The industry had until February to comment on the SEC's proposal. SEC officials say they will make a decision by June.
The SEC decided that shorting on a downtick or...
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