Written by Jay Gould
On March 10, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to Rule 201 and Rule 200(g) of Regulation SHO (“Rules”). In order to give certain exchanges additional time to modify current procedures for conducting single-priced transactions for covered securities that have triggered Rule 201’s circuit breaker and to give industry participants additional time for programming and testing for compliance with the requirements of the Rules, the SEC has extended the compliance date for both Rules from November 10, 2010 to February 28, 2011. A full text of the adopting rule is available here.