SEC's Emergency Orders and Related Information in Response to Recent Market Developments

Investors: see Information for Individual Investors on Recent Market Events

SEC Emergency Actions

• Order Amending and Extending Emergency Order Requiring Institutional Money Managers to Report New Short Sales (Release No. 34-58724, October 2, 2008); see also Order including Form SH and Instructions
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• Order Extending Emergency Order Halting Short Selling in Financial Stocks (Release No. 34-58723, October 2, 2008)
  Comments received are available.
   
• Order Extending Emergency Order to Enhance Investor Protections Against Naked Short Selling (Release No. 34-58711, October 1, 2008)
  Comments received are available.
   
• Order Extending SEC Order Easing Restrictions on Issuers to Re-Purchase Their Securities (Release No. 34-58703, October 1, 2008)
   
• Reserve Fund: Order Temporarily Suspending Redemption of Investment Company Shares and Postponing Payment for Investment Company Shares Which Have Been Submitted for Redemption for Which Payment Has Not Been Made (Release No. IC-28386, September 22, 2008)
   
• Amended Order Halting Short Selling in Financial Stocks (Release No. 34-58611, September 21, 2008)
  Comments received are available.
   
• Amendment to SEC Order Requiring Institutional Money Managers to Report New Short Sales (Release No. 34-58591A, September 21, 2008)
   
• SEC Order Easing Restrictions on Issuers to Re-Purchase Their Securities (Release No. 34-58588, September 18, 2008)
   
• SEC Order Halting Short Selling in Financial Stocks (Release No. 34-58592, September 18, 2008)
   
• SEC Order Requiring Institutional Money Managers to Report New Short Sales (Release No. 34-58591, September 18, 2008)
   
• Emergency Order to Enhance Investor Protections Against Naked Short Selling (Release No. 34-58572, September 17, 2008)
   

Press Releases

• Statement of Securities and Exchange Commission Concerning Short Selling (Press Release No. 2008-235, October 1, 2008)
   
• SEC Office of Chief Accountant, FASB Staff Clarifications on Fair Value Accounting (Press Release No. 2008-234, September 30, 2008)
   
• Statement of SEC Division of Trading and Markets Regarding Technical Amendments to Short Sale Order (Press Release No. 2008-218, September 21, 2008)
   
• SEC Approves Amended Order Requiring Reporting of Short Positions by Certain Investment Managers (Press Release No. 2008-217, September 21, 2008)
   
• SEC Expands Sweeping Investigation of Market Manipulation (Press Release No. 2008-214, September 19, 2008)
   
• SEC Halts Short Selling of Financial Stocks to Protect Investors and Markets (Press Release No. 2008-211, September 19, 2008)
   
• SEC Issues New Rules to Protect Investors Against Naked Short Selling Abuses (Press Release No. 2008-209, September 17, 2008)
   

Testimony

• SEC Chairman Christopher Cox Testifies on Turmoil in Credit Markets (Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, September 23, 2008)

Market Participant Guidance

• Guidance Regarding Sale of Loaned But Recalled Securities (Division of Trading and Market; September 28, 2008)
   
• Guidance Regarding the Commission's Emergency Order Concerning Disclosure of Short Selling (Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, and Division of Trading and Markets; September 24, 2008)
   
• Guidance Regarding the Commission's Emergency Order Concerning Rules to Protect Investors against "Naked" Short Selling Abuses (Division of Trading and Markets; September 24, 2008)
   
• Regulators Provide "Tips" for Broker-Dealers on Avoiding Failures to Deliver Securities (Division of Trading and Markets; September 18, 2008)

EDGAR Filer Materials and Guidance

• Form SH (revised October 2, 2008)
   
• Form SH Instructions (revised October 2, 2008)
   
• Note that the EDGARLink Template (#3) for Form SH submissions is now available on the EDGAR Filing Website