SEC grants year-long reprieve from short sale reporting requirements

The pause to Rule 13f-2 comes in response to a request for further guidance from investors.

The SEC has granted a pause for Rule 13f-2, which requires that institutional investment managers file nonpublic Form SHO reports that include information on month-end short positions and net daily short sale activity when certain thresholds are exceeded.

The SEC would use that data to compile a report on the

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