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Article: SEC Extends Emergency Rules Regarding Short Selling And Stock Repurchases.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- October 23, 2008
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended the emergency rules that strengthen the ban on naked short selling, temporarily halt short selling in financial stocks, temporarily require money managers to report new short sales, and temporarily ease existing restrictions on issuers repurchasing their securities. These rules, which became effective between Thursday, September 18, 2008 and Monday, September 22, 2008, are now extended. The SEC has not reinstituted the uptick rule for short-sale transactions, nor has the SEC provided relief for parties wishing to conduct cashless exercises of employee stock options for financial institutions.
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