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SEC Proposes Stock-by-Stock Circuit Breaker Rules
May 21, 2010
Responding to the May 6 "Flash Crash," the SEC has announced that the national exchanges and FINRA are filing proposed rules under which trading could be paused for individual stocks if the price moves 10 percent or more in a five minute period. According to… read more
Flash Crash: Preliminary SEC and CFTC Findings
May 24, 2010
Staffs of the SEC and CFTC have released the preliminary findings of their investigations into the mysterious May 6 "Flash Crash." Though the precise causes of the acute and sudden disappearance of meaningful prices for many major exchange-listed stocks in the middle of the May… read more
SEC Expected to Publish Stock-by-Stock Rule Proposals this Week
June 07, 2010
In a June 4 statement by SEC spokesman, John Nestor, the Commission staff announced that it expects to present its stock-by-stock circuit breaker rule proposing release to the Commission sometime this week. The SEC announced on May 18, following the May 6 "Flash… read more
SEC and CFTC Issue Report on May 6 Flash Crash
October 04, 2010
On Friday, the SEC and CFTC issues a joint report relating the findings of their study of the May 6, 2010 "Flash Crash," an unprecedented acute and sudden disappearance of meaningful prices for many major exchange-listed stocks in the middle of the May 6 trading day.… read more
May 6 “Flash Crash” Report - the Director’s Cut
October 27, 2010
Gregg Berman, Senior Advisor to the Director of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, recently gave an address before the 11th Annual SIFMA Market Structure Conference. Berman's remarks were focused on the joint SEC and CFTC report on the May 6 "flash crash," and,… read more