Search Results for uptick rule - 10 articles

• 5 Thoughts About This Week's Short-Sale Vote
  Joshua M Brown, February 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 am, Comments: 0

  New rules for short-sellers could be coming on Wednesday.

• Hot Links: The Dunking Elephant
  Joshua M Brown, January 24th, 2010 at 8:29 am, Comments: 0

  Links for Sunday Reading.

• Happy Halloween from TRB
  Joshua M Brown, October 31st, 2009 at 9:51 am, Comments: 0

  Editors Note: This post originally appeared on October 17th 2009. Have a Happy Halloween and Enjoy! Its that time of year again... As we speak, your neighborhood freak is busy shoving rusty screws into the Milky Way bars, teen boys are stocking up on eggs and toilet paper and teen girls are shopping for either [...]

• Top Ten Scariest Wall Street Halloween Costumes
  Joshua M Brown, October 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, Comments: 0

  Its that time of year again... As we speak, your neighborhood freak is busy shoving rusty screws into the Milky Way bars, teen boys are stocking up on eggs and toilet paper and teen girls are shopping for either a slutty nurse, slutty devil, slutty maid, or slutty marketing executive costume. That's right!  Halloween is [...]

• Blue Horseshoe Worries About "Wall Street" Sequel
  Joshua M Brown, June 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm, Comments: 0

  I just read some of the preliminary details on the upcoming Wall Street sequel from Oliver Stone over on Dealbreaker and I'm physically incapable of not chiming in on this one. I'll quote Gordon Gecko himself to let you know how I feel about a sequel to the greatest movie about business ever made: "Mixed [...]

• The Cramer Uptick Rule Petition
  Joshua M Brown, May 13th, 2009 at 6:08 am, Comments: 0

  A group of market commentators from TheStreet.com, including James Cramer, have put out a petition which lobbies for the reinstatement of the original Uptick Rule, as opposed to a loophole-laden approximation filled with caveats and work-arounds as is rumored to be a possibility. The SEC is currently seeking comment until June 19th.  There were only [...]

• This Just In: SEC's 5 New Uptick Rule Proposals
  Joshua M Brown, April 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, Comments: 0

  So the SEC voted to propose five uptick rule-related proposals.  The comment period, during which the SEC receives feedback from member firms, will be 60 days before anything is decided on. From Pensions & Investments: Among the proposals being considered, one is to reinstate the original rule that was introduced in 1938 and was in [...]

• The Modified Uptick Rule Debate
  Joshua M Brown, April 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am, Comments: 0

  Coming Soon! The following is not an argument for or against shorting, as that is a non-debate.   The presence of short-selling is a necessary component of a free, liquid and healthy market.  The question we'll focus on here is what type of form the safeguards against abusive short-selling should take when the discussion by [...]

• FASB to Hold a Mark-To-Market Jam Session – Updated
  Joshua M Brown, April 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 am, Comments: 0

  OOOOOOOHHH!  The Financial Accounting Standards Board (known as FASB in the 'hood) is meeting today to discuss, err, a possible, shall we say...relaxation of its policies regarding hard-to-value assets. I haven't been this excited since I was a little girl waiting in the rain for New Kids On The Block tickets in 1989!  JK. By [...]

• Coming Soon: The Uptick Rule
  Joshua M Brown, March 10th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, Comments: 0

  The word today is that The Uptick Rule, the best line of defense we haven't had in place for the last year, may be making a comeback. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the head of the House Financial Services committee, said that the SEC should restore the so-called "uptick" rule within a month, Reuters is reporting. [...]