Year: 2008

This week, SEC enforcement actions focused on market manipulation and insider trading. The Second Circuit handed down a decision which may be of increasing importance as the current market crisis continues to spawn litigation, while the option backdating scandal inched …

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As efforts to quell the current market crisis continue, the SEC extended a temporary market rules regarding short selling. At the same time, the agency reiterated its requests for additional regulatory authority from Congress over credit default swaps while discussing …

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