On July 31, 2009, we briefly discussed the SEC's decision to make permanent its temporary Rule 204T, which attempts to curb short-sale abuses by strengthening the close-out requirements of Regulation SHO for failures to deliver securities resulting from investor short-selling in the securities market. As we noted, since the SEC's adoption of temporary Rule 204T, there has been a significant decline in the number of "failures to deliver" resulting from short-selling.
A recent article by the Wall Street Journal indicates that the SEC's permanent enactment of Rule 204T is already having an impact on the nation's largest stock exchanges. Specifically, "[b]oth NYSE Euronext (NYX) and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) are now aggregating daily company-by-company short-sale data on all trades that take place on their exchanges." According to the article, Nasdaq plans to eventually seek SEC approval to charge for this information, a request which seems clearly inconsistent with the SEC's purpose behind Rule 204T.
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