Irmãos Martins estão de saída da Martifer

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Será que vêem aí mais medidas restritivas ao short selling!?

Provocará isto um rallie? Noutros casos - como penso que aconteceu no Japão - tais medidas provocaram um ressalto mas, ao fim de meia dúzia de meses o mercado voltou a fazer mínimos.

Wall Street executives expect the Securities and Exchange Commission to extend the temporary limits it has placed on short-selling and expand them to cover additional stocks beyond the 19 financial companies it targeted two weeks ago.

The limits are set to expire Tuesday, and executives, lobbyists and hedge-fund representatives of the Managed Funds Association, the biggest hedge-fund industry group, have been talking throughout the weekend, trying to come up with possible approaches to asking the SEC to reconsider expanding the rules, according to people familiar with the talks.

A call with regulators on Friday gave the funds group "a fair degree of certainty" that the SEC intends to seek an extension of the emergency period, these people said. Regulators said an extension could be for as short as 60 days and could involve insurance, housing-industry and a broader range of financial stocks, according to these people. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox indicated last week the rules might be extended to all stocks.

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By 11:59 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the SEC will need to decide whether to extend its emergency order or let it expire. The SEC said it could extend the order for 30 days. But the law allowing the order limits such action to 10 business days.

It's not clear the SEC commissioners will agree that an extension is warranted. Paul Atkins, a Republican commissioner, has asked the agency's economists to determine whether the order had an effect on the targeted stocks, a person familiar with the matter says. If it hasn't, Mr. Atkins might argue against an extension, this person said.

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fonte: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121720268943988515.html