{"id":13815,"date":"2010-01-25T05:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2010-01-25T05:46:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:46:47","slug":"sec-may-approve-restrictions-on-short-sales-when-stocks-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2010\/sec-may-approve-restrictions-on-short-sales-when-stocks-plunge.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC May Approve Restrictions on Short Sales When Stocks Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Concern that short-sellers accelerate stock declines may prompt the Securities and  Exchange Commission to adopt a rule next month aimed at curbing  bearish bets when equities are plunging.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation would require the trades be executed above the best existing bid in the market when shares fall  10 percent in a day, said Brian Hyndman, the senior vice  president in transaction services at Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. In  a short sale, an investor borrows an asset and sells it,  hoping to profit from a decrease by repurchasing it later at  a lower price.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aMWQn8mCXZxM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Concern that short-sellers accelerate stock declines may prompt the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt a rule next month aimed at curbing bearish bets when equities are plunging. The regulation would require the trades be executed above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13817,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions\/13817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}