"A radical overhaul of hedge fund regulation that would limit short-selling and leverage is being discussed within the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the Commissioners said on Thursday." http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentS...y&c=StoryFT&cid=1042491370599&p=1012571727304
da da dun dun dun another source of volume at the NYSE bites the dust, and another one down and another one down, another one bites the dust... Hi this is Maria Bartiromo, and we have now a run rate at 12 noon of 700 Million shares at the end of the day.
Typical impotent arrogant governmental BS. If and when they do shoot themselves in the foot with this dumbass legislation more and more funds will simply re-organize offshore. The funny part is that the regulators actually think they can have an impact on my business. Dr. Zhivodka
everytime the US markets get hammered, some johnny-on-the-spot SEC genius goes gunning for hedge funds the public is always looking for someone to blame for their own investment failures... god forbid it be the mutual funds who were buying qualcomm at $800, because we know that qualcomm is a fundamentally *solid* company with good earnings and all those technical types can just go to hell