“U.S. SEC to review stock trading rules in big potential shakeup”
March 11, 2019
“The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a review of the main set of rules governing stock trading, opening the door to the biggest potential changes in a decade-and-a-half, the head of the agency said on Friday.
The possible changes are aimed at making it easier to trade illiquid stocks, making more trading information available to investors, and improving the speed and quality of public data feeds needed for trading…
Some areas the SEC is looking at include:
– Increasing the speed of, and adding more stock price information to, public data feeds to help make them more competitive against the more expensive, private data feeds sold by most stock exchanges.
– Allowing thinly-traded securities to trade only on their listing market, rather than on all 13 U.S. stock exchanges.
– Improving disclosure around reverse mergers.
– Adjusting the quote size of some high-priced stocks.
The 2019 review follows an active 2018 for the SEC…”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-sec-review-stock-trading-100826576.html
I’ll be following this to see what major changes the SEC makes.