US SEC votes allow half-penny stock pricing
Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday unanimously voted to allow stock exchanges to price many stocks in increments of half a penny, rather than the current minimum size of 1 cent, aiming to promote more competitive pricing and reduce investor costs on the $55 trillion U.
SEC Approves Stock Quotes in Half-Penny Ticks on Exchanges
The price increments at which thousands of stocks and ETFs are quoted look set for an overhaul Wednesday, when the US Securities and Exchange Commission votes on final rules to reduce them to less than 1 cent.
Why the SEC is allowing some stocks to trade in half-cent increments
Stocks are currently priced in increments of one-cent. But a move by the SEC could lower transaction costs for consumers.
US SEC to allow exchanges to quote sub-penny prices in bid to boost competition
Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday is set to adopt new rules for pricing stocks at less than a penny, part of a larger package of proposed reforms that could constitute the biggest overhaul of U.
SEC greenlights half-penny tick sizes
The SEC in 2005 established Regulation National Market System, or Reg NMS, to modernize the U.S. equity system. In part, Reg NMS established minimum pricing increments of 1 cent for stocks priced over $1. The minimum pricing increments, or tick sizes, are the smallest increment in which a stock’s price can be quoted or move up or down.
SEC approves its overhaul of stock pricing, exchange fees
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved rules that will allow thousands of stocks and ETFs traded on exchanges to be quoted in half-penny increments. The agency’s move Wednesday, which came with a unanimous vote from the five commissioners,
SEC adopts lower minimum tick size for certain stocks (updated)
SEC adopts rule amendments to reduce tick size for NMS stocks, decrease access fees, and increase transparency in the equity markets.
US SEC poised to allow half-penny stock pricing
Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday unveiled rules allowing stock markets to price shares in increments of half a penny, rather than the current minimum size of 1 cent, aiming to promote more competitive pricing and reduce investor costs.
SEC cuts tick size for stock market trades to a half penny
US regulators dumped long-standing penny limits on share trading prices and cut the fees exchanges can charge their users in new equity market rules that nonetheless ended far short of more radical initial plans.
New SEC Rules Will Change the Price of Thousands of Stocks
The proposals being considered by the Securities and Exchange Commission are tamer versions of the ambitious revamp of stock trading that Chair Gary Gensler proposed two years ago.
SEC set to permit stock exchanges to quote sub-penny prices
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to approve a rule that will allow exchanges to quote sub-penny prices as it seeks to foster competition, according to a media report. The Regulation NMS: Minimum Pricing is part of a broader set of regulations that proposes to overhaul U.
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