Month: September 2008

Last week, the SEC took extraordinary action with a package of measures discussed here which injected the agency into the trading markets in an unprecedented manner. By temporarily banning short sales in the shares of selected financial institutions – presumably …

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This week, the market crisis continued to dominate all events. The SEC took extraordinary steps to curtail short selling and is considering additional emergency measures which would require large hedge funds and institutional traders to disclose their short positions. To …

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