{"id":8866,"date":"2008-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sec-to-make-hedge-funds-report-short-sales-until-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/sec-to-make-hedge-funds-report-short-sales-until-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC to Make Hedge Funds Report Short Sales Until 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission extended a rule forcing hedge funds to tell the agency about short-sale positions amid concerns investors bet against companies after spreading false rumors they will fail.             <\/p>\n<p>Investment managers who oversee more than $100 million must to disclose to the SEC the stocks they&#8217;ve bet will fall in price until Aug. 1, the agency said in a statement on its Web site today. Those positions won&#8217;t be made public, the SEC said.     <\/p>\n<p>The SEC said it&#8217;s concerned &#8220;about the possible unnecessary or artificial price movements&#8221; in stocks &#8220;that may be based on unfounded rumors and may be exacerbated by short selling.&#8221;     <\/p>\n<p>The SEC is investigating hedge funds and cracking down on short-selling after lawmakers questioned whether traders spread misinformation and used abusive tactics to attack companies. The collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. in March and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.&#8217;s September bankruptcy fueled concerns that investors were manipulating financial markets.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=ahj13_mk5gRg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission extended a rule forcing hedge funds to tell the agency about short-sale positions amid concerns investors bet against companies after spreading false rumors they will fail. Investment managers who oversee more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,132,673,138,134,309,96,1517,83,3064,20,34,1516,1387,2163,1314,439],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bets","tag-capital-management-ltd","tag-carnage","tag-east-coast-routes","tag-eliot-spitzer","tag-farmland","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings-inc","tag-medallion","tag-nester","tag-new-marketplace","tag-news-press","tag-sailfish-capital-partners-llc","tag-san-antonio-business","tag-securities-law","tag-security-education","tag-sumitomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}