With the expiration looming on an emergency Securities and Exchange Commission order banning short-selling in hundreds of financial company stocks, exchanges are working toward a permanent solution that would involve all stocks.

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The exchange with the emergency operator was emotionally charged.

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The exchange's emergency closure 20 minutes early (with curtailed trading announced for the following day, too) leaves what remained of its reputation in tatters, and everyone in government from the prime minister down seething.

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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to suspend the mark-to-market rules, which went into effect in the fall of 2007, just in time for the credit crisis.

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On Wednesday, HP resumed its buyback of its shares under a plan issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows companies to purchase their own shares in the event of a national emergency.

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