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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 113 / Wednesday, June 13, 2007 / Notices General as independent and objective units to conduct and supervise audits and investigations relating to Federal programs and operations. Executive Order 12301 (March 26, 1981) established the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE). On May 11, 1992, Executive Order 12805 reaffirmed the PCIE and also established the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE). Both councils are interagency committees chaired by the Office of Management and Budget’s Deputy Director for Management. Their mission is to coordinate and enhance governmental efforts to promote integrity and efficiency and to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal programs. The PCIE is comprised principally of the 29 Presidential appointed Inspectors General (IGs), ECIE members include the 32 Inspectors General appointed by their respective agency heads. II. 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E7–11377 Filed 6–12–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–10–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–55875; File No. SR–Amex– 2006–170] Self-Regulatory Organizations; American Stock Exchange LLC; Order Granting Accelerated Approval of a Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Thereto, Relating to Procedures for At-Risk Cross Transactions sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES June 7, 2007. I. Introduction On February 17, 2006, the American Stock Exchange LLC (‘‘Amex’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to adopt a new crossing procedure, the ‘‘atrisk cross,’’ as an alternative to the 1 15 2 17 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). CFR 240.19b–4. VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:30 Jun 12, 2007 Jkt 211001 Exchange’s existing facilitation cross procedure. On November 9, 2006, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule change, and on December 1, 2006, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 2 to the proposed rule change. The proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1 and 2, was published for comment in the Federal Register on January 17, 2007.3 On March 28, 2007, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 3 to the proposed rule change, and on May 3, 2007, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 4 to the proposed rule change. Amendment Nos. 3 and 4 to the proposed rule change were published for comment in the Federal Register on May 14, 2007 for a 15-day comment period.4 The comment period ended on May 29, 2007. The Commission received no comments on the proposal. This order grants accelerated approval to the proposed rule change, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. II. Description of the Proposal The Exchange proposes to adopt an ‘‘at-risk cross’’ procedure for equity options by adding Commentary .03 to Amex Rule 950–ANTE(d). This new ‘‘at risk cross’’ procedure would supplement the existing facilitation cross procedure set forth in Commentary .02 to Amex Rule 950– ANTE(d)5 The proposed at-risk crossing procedure would permit a floor broker, after satisfying all public customer orders, to execute a cross that is at-risk to the market on behalf of a member organization trading against its own customer’s order between the quoted market, once priority has been established. The at-risk cross transaction procedure would be available for use only by floor brokers attempting to cross an order of a public customer against an order from the same member organization, and the minimum eligible order size for the at-risk cross transaction would be 50 contracts. A floor broker attempting to execute an order as an at-risk cross would be required first to request bids and offers 3 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55068 (January 9, 2007), 72 FR 2044 (‘‘Notice’’). 4 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55719 (May 3, 2007), 72 FR 27155 (‘‘Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4’’). 5 Commentary .02(c) to Amex Rule 950–ANTE(d) sets forth the facilitation cross procedures for options trading generally. Commentary .02(d) to Amex Rule 950–ANTE(d) sets forth conditions and procedures by which a member firm facilitating its own public customer’s order is entitled to participate from its proprietary account as the contra-side of that order to the extent of 40 percent of the contracts remaining after public customers have been satisfied, provided the order trades at or between the quoted market. PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 32687 from the trading crowd for all components of the public customer order.6 After the trading crowd has provided a quote, the floor broker would then represent the customer order to the trading crowd, indicating that it is a customer order and providing the order’s size, side of the market, and a price, giving the customer the opportunity for price improvement. After the trading crowd has provided a quote in response to the customer order, the proposed rule would permit the floor broker to improve the trading crowd’s quote on behalf of the member organization and thereby establish priority over the trading crowd at this new price.7 The bid or offer on behalf of the member organization would be required to be one minimum price variation (‘‘MPV’’) away from the customer order. The floor broker could then attempt to consummate a cross transaction with the customer at that price. However, the cross transaction would be ‘‘at risk’’ to the market, because the trading crowd would still have the ability to break up the cross before its consummation, either by trading with the customer order at the customer’s price or trading with the member organization’s order at its attempted cross price. Under the Exchange’s existing facilitation crossing procedures, a member firm seeking to facilitate its own public customer’s order is entitled to participate in the firm’s proprietary account as the contra-side of that order up to 40 percent of the remaining contracts (the ‘‘Member Firm Guarantee’’), provided that the order trades at a price that matches or improves the market, after public customer orders on the specialist’s book or customer orders represented by a floor broker in the crowd have been filled.8 Under the proposed at-risk crossing procedure, the floor broker on behalf of the member firm effectively would relinquish the Member Firm Guarantee in an attempt to cross the entire order. III. Discussion After careful review, the Commission finds that the proposed rule change, as amended, is consistent with the requirements of the Act and the rules 6 The floor broker would be required to disclose on the order ticket for the public customer order all the terms of the order, including, if applicable, any contingency involving other options, underlying securities, or related securities. 7 At this point, the floor broker may alternatively decide to follow the procedures of Commentary .02(d) to Amex Rule 950–ANTE(d). 8 See Commentary .02(d)(1) to Amex Rule 950– ANTE(d). E:\FR\FM\13JNN1.SGM 13JNN1 sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES 32688 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 113 / Wednesday, June 13, 2007 / Notices and regulations thereunder applicable to a national securities exchange and, in particular, with Section 6(b)(5) of the Act,9 which requires, among other things, that the rules of a national securities exchange be designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of, a free and open market and a national market system and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest.10 The Commission believes that the proposed at-risk cross procedure is consistent with the Act in that it is intended to provide public customer orders with additional opportunity for price improvement without affording unfair advantage to the member firms that submit such customer orders and seek to trade against them. Under the proposal, a floor broker may attempt to cross a public customer order entirely against an order from the member firm from which it originated only after the floor broker, on behalf of the member firm, improves the price quoted to the customer by the trading crowd, and thereafter affords the crowd an opportunity to break up the cross by improving the price still one MPV better. Moreover, the trading crowd alternatively could break up the attempted cross by trading with the member firm’s order at the member firm’s price. In addition, the Commission believes that the at-risk cross procedure may encourage the members of the trading crowd to put forth their best bids or offers when the customer order is first presented to the crowd. This is because the floor broker would be able to establish priority by improving the trading crowd’s quoted market, and then would be permitted to cross the entire order at the improved price. Accordingly, the Commission believes that members of the trading crowd will have a greater incentive to make larger, tighter markets in response to customer orders, thereby improving the auction market. The Commission notes further that if a public customer order either on the book or represented in the trading crowd has priority over the at-risk cross, the member firm would be permitted to participate only in those contracts remaining after the public customer’s 9 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5). approving this proposed rule change, the Commission has considered the proposed rule’s impact on efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See 15 U.S.C. 78c(f). 10 In VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:30 Jun 12, 2007 Jkt 211001 order has been filled.11 In addition, if there is a public customer order on the book or represented in the trading crowd on the same side of the market as, and priced at or better than, the public customer order that is part of the at-risk cross, the public customer order on the book or represented in the trading crowd would have priority.12 The Commission also finds that the Exchange’s at-risk cross proposal is consistent with Section 11(a) under the Act.13 The Commission notes that orders relying on the exemption provided by Section 11(a)(1)(G) of the Act (for ‘‘G Orders’’) 14 from the prohibitions of Section 11(a) may be executed as an at-risk cross only if the requirements of Section 11(a)(1)(G) are met. Specifically, the Exchange has noted that if a G Order is entered by a floor broker as part of an at-risk cross transaction, the G Order will not be permitted to execute ahead of any nonmember order on the book.15 The Commission finds good cause for approving the proposed rule change, as amended, prior to the thirtieth day after publishing notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4 in the Federal Register. The Commission notes that the proposal, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1 and 2, was published for a full notice and comment period,16 and that the Commission received no comment letters on the proposal. Further, Amendment Nos. 3 and 4 were published for a 15-day comment period, and the Commission received no comment letters. Amendment No. 3 made technical and clarifying changes and confirmed previous verbal representations made by the Exchange. The Commission believes that these clarifications serve to enhance the proposal and raise no new or novel issues. Amendment No. 4 proposed to permit the at-risk crossing procedure to apply to options classes that are part of the options penny pilot program (‘‘penny pilot options’’).17 The Commission believes that orders in the penny pilot options should be afforded the same potential for price improvement through the at-risk cross 11 See Commentary .03 to Amex Rule 950– ANTE(d) and Notice, supra note 3, at n.7. See also Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4, supra note 4. 12 See Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4, supra note 4. 13 15 U.S.C. 78k(a). 14 15 U.S.C. 78k(a)(1)(G). 15 See Notice, supra note 3. 16 See id. 17 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55162 (January 24, 2007), 72 FR 4738 (February 1, 2007) (SR–Amex–2006–106). Amendment No. 4 also made non-substantive rule text changes and showed the text of the final proposal as marked against the current text of Amex Rule 950–ANTE(d). PO 00000 Frm 00083 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 procedure as other options classes, and that applying the at-risk cross procedure to penny pilot options raises no additional significant regulatory issues that were not considered in the original proposal. Therefore, the Commission believes that no purpose is served by delaying approval of the proposal, as amended. Accordingly, the Commission finds good cause, consistent with Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,18 to approve the proposal, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, on an accelerated basis. IV. Conclusion It is therefore ordered, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,19 that the proposed rule change (SR–Amex–2006– 17), as modified by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, be, and hereby is, approved on an accelerated basis. For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated authority.20 Florence E. Harmon, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–11367 Filed 6–12–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8010–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–55874; File No. SR–CBOE– 2006–101] Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated; Order Approving Proposed Rule Change as Modified by Amendment Nos. 1 and 2 Thereto To Amend CBOE’s Rules To Reflect the Migration of Its TPF Technology Platform Over to the Existing CBOEdirect Technology Platform June 7, 2007. I. Introduction On November 30, 2006, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated (‘‘CBOE’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to introduce a third trading platform into its existing CBOEdirect system, ‘‘Hybrid 3.0.’’ The Exchange submitted Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule change on February 15, 2007. The Exchange submitted Amendment No. 2 18 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 20 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 19 5 E:\FR\FM\13JNN1.SGM 13JNN1

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32687-32688]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-55875; File No. SR-Amex-2006-170]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; American Stock Exchange LLC; Order 
Granting Accelerated Approval of a Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by 
Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Thereto, Relating to Procedures for At-
Risk Cross Transactions

June 7, 2007.

I. Introduction

    On February 17, 2006, the American Stock Exchange LLC (``Amex'' or 
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 
(``Commission''), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act'') \1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a 
proposed rule change to adopt a new crossing procedure, the ``at-risk 
cross,'' as an alternative to the Exchange's existing facilitation 
cross procedure. On November 9, 2006, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 
1 to the proposed rule change, and on December 1, 2006, the Exchange 
filed Amendment No. 2 to the proposed rule change. The proposed rule 
change, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1 and 2, was published for 
comment in the Federal Register on January 17, 2007.\3\ On March 28, 
2007, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 3 to the proposed rule change, 
and on May 3, 2007, the Exchange filed Amendment No. 4 to the proposed 
rule change. Amendment Nos. 3 and 4 to the proposed rule change were 
published for comment in the Federal Register on May 14, 2007 for a 15-
day comment period.\4\ The comment period ended on May 29, 2007. The 
Commission received no comments on the proposal. This order grants 
accelerated approval to the proposed rule change, as modified by 
Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55068 (January 9, 
2007), 72 FR 2044 (``Notice'').
    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55719 (May 3, 2007), 
72 FR 27155 (``Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4'').
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II. Description of the Proposal

    The Exchange proposes to adopt an ``at-risk cross'' procedure for 
equity options by adding Commentary .03 to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d). This 
new ``at risk cross'' procedure would supplement the existing 
facilitation cross procedure set forth in Commentary .02 to Amex Rule 
950-ANTE(d)\5\ The proposed at-risk crossing procedure would permit a 
floor broker, after satisfying all public customer orders, to execute a 
cross that is at-risk to the market on behalf of a member organization 
trading against its own customer's order between the quoted market, 
once priority has been established.
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    \5\ Commentary .02(c) to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d) sets forth the 
facilitation cross procedures for options trading generally. 
Commentary .02(d) to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d) sets forth conditions and 
procedures by which a member firm facilitating its own public 
customer's order is entitled to participate from its proprietary 
account as the contra-side of that order to the extent of 40 percent 
of the contracts remaining after public customers have been 
satisfied, provided the order trades at or between the quoted 
market.
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    The at-risk cross transaction procedure would be available for use 
only by floor brokers attempting to cross an order of a public customer 
against an order from the same member organization, and the minimum 
eligible order size for the at-risk cross transaction would be 50 
contracts. A floor broker attempting to execute an order as an at-risk 
cross would be required first to request bids and offers from the 
trading crowd for all components of the public customer order.\6\ After 
the trading crowd has provided a quote, the floor broker would then 
represent the customer order to the trading crowd, indicating that it 
is a customer order and providing the order's size, side of the market, 
and a price, giving the customer the opportunity for price improvement.
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    \6\ The floor broker would be required to disclose on the order 
ticket for the public customer order all the terms of the order, 
including, if applicable, any contingency involving other options, 
underlying securities, or related securities.
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    After the trading crowd has provided a quote in response to the 
customer order, the proposed rule would permit the floor broker to 
improve the trading crowd's quote on behalf of the member organization 
and thereby establish priority over the trading crowd at this new 
price.\7\ The bid or offer on behalf of the member organization would 
be required to be one minimum price variation (``MPV'') away from the 
customer order. The floor broker could then attempt to consummate a 
cross transaction with the customer at that price. However, the cross 
transaction would be ``at risk'' to the market, because the trading 
crowd would still have the ability to break up the cross before its 
consummation, either by trading with the customer order at the 
customer's price or trading with the member organization's order at its 
attempted cross price.
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    \7\ At this point, the floor broker may alternatively decide to 
follow the procedures of Commentary .02(d) to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d).
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    Under the Exchange's existing facilitation crossing procedures, a 
member firm seeking to facilitate its own public customer's order is 
entitled to participate in the firm's proprietary account as the 
contra-side of that order up to 40 percent of the remaining contracts 
(the ``Member Firm Guarantee''), provided that the order trades at a 
price that matches or improves the market, after public customer orders 
on the specialist's book or customer orders represented by a floor 
broker in the crowd have been filled.\8\ Under the proposed at-risk 
crossing procedure, the floor broker on behalf of the member firm 
effectively would relinquish the Member Firm Guarantee in an attempt to 
cross the entire order.
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    \8\ See Commentary .02(d)(1) to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d).
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III. Discussion

    After careful review, the Commission finds that the proposed rule 
change, as amended, is consistent with the requirements of the Act and 
the rules

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and regulations thereunder applicable to a national securities exchange 
and, in particular, with Section 6(b)(5) of the Act,\9\ which requires, 
among other things, that the rules of a national securities exchange be 
designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to 
promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove impediments 
to, and perfect the mechanism of, a free and open market and a national 
market system and, in general, to protect investors and the public 
interest.\10\
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    \9\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
    \10\ In approving this proposed rule change, the Commission has 
considered the proposed rule's impact on efficiency, competition, 
and capital formation. See 15 U.S.C. 78c(f).
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    The Commission believes that the proposed at-risk cross procedure 
is consistent with the Act in that it is intended to provide public 
customer orders with additional opportunity for price improvement 
without affording unfair advantage to the member firms that submit such 
customer orders and seek to trade against them. Under the proposal, a 
floor broker may attempt to cross a public customer order entirely 
against an order from the member firm from which it originated only 
after the floor broker, on behalf of the member firm, improves the 
price quoted to the customer by the trading crowd, and thereafter 
affords the crowd an opportunity to break up the cross by improving the 
price still one MPV better. Moreover, the trading crowd alternatively 
could break up the attempted cross by trading with the member firm's 
order at the member firm's price.
    In addition, the Commission believes that the at-risk cross 
procedure may encourage the members of the trading crowd to put forth 
their best bids or offers when the customer order is first presented to 
the crowd. This is because the floor broker would be able to establish 
priority by improving the trading crowd's quoted market, and then would 
be permitted to cross the entire order at the improved price. 
Accordingly, the Commission believes that members of the trading crowd 
will have a greater incentive to make larger, tighter markets in 
response to customer orders, thereby improving the auction market.
    The Commission notes further that if a public customer order either 
on the book or represented in the trading crowd has priority over the 
at-risk cross, the member firm would be permitted to participate only 
in those contracts remaining after the public customer's order has been 
filled.\11\ In addition, if there is a public customer order on the 
book or represented in the trading crowd on the same side of the market 
as, and priced at or better than, the public customer order that is 
part of the at-risk cross, the public customer order on the book or 
represented in the trading crowd would have priority.\12\
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    \11\ See Commentary .03 to Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d) and Notice, 
supra note 3, at n.7. See also Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4, 
supra note 4.
    \12\ See Notice of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4, supra note 4.
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    The Commission also finds that the Exchange's at-risk cross 
proposal is consistent with Section 11(a) under the Act.\13\ The 
Commission notes that orders relying on the exemption provided by 
Section 11(a)(1)(G) of the Act (for ``G Orders'') \14\ from the 
prohibitions of Section 11(a) may be executed as an at-risk cross only 
if the requirements of Section 11(a)(1)(G) are met. Specifically, the 
Exchange has noted that if a G Order is entered by a floor broker as 
part of an at-risk cross transaction, the G Order will not be permitted 
to execute ahead of any non-member order on the book.\15\
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    \13\ 15 U.S.C. 78k(a).
    \14\ 15 U.S.C. 78k(a)(1)(G).
    \15\ See Notice, supra note 3.
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    The Commission finds good cause for approving the proposed rule 
change, as amended, prior to the thirtieth day after publishing notice 
of Amendment Nos. 3 and 4 in the Federal Register. The Commission notes 
that the proposal, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1 and 2, was published 
for a full notice and comment period,\16\ and that the Commission 
received no comment letters on the proposal. Further, Amendment Nos. 3 
and 4 were published for a 15-day comment period, and the Commission 
received no comment letters. Amendment No. 3 made technical and 
clarifying changes and confirmed previous verbal representations made 
by the Exchange. The Commission believes that these clarifications 
serve to enhance the proposal and raise no new or novel issues. 
Amendment No. 4 proposed to permit the at-risk crossing procedure to 
apply to options classes that are part of the options penny pilot 
program (``penny pilot options'').\17\ The Commission believes that 
orders in the penny pilot options should be afforded the same potential 
for price improvement through the at-risk cross procedure as other 
options classes, and that applying the at-risk cross procedure to penny 
pilot options raises no additional significant regulatory issues that 
were not considered in the original proposal. Therefore, the Commission 
believes that no purpose is served by delaying approval of the 
proposal, as amended. Accordingly, the Commission finds good cause, 
consistent with Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,\18\ to approve the 
proposal, as modified by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, on an 
accelerated basis.
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    \16\ See id.
    \17\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55162 (January 24, 
2007), 72 FR 4738 (February 1, 2007) (SR-Amex-2006-106). Amendment 
No. 4 also made non-substantive rule text changes and showed the 
text of the final proposal as marked against the current text of 
Amex Rule 950-ANTE(d).
    \18\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
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IV. Conclusion

    It is therefore ordered, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the 
Act,\19\ that the proposed rule change (SR-Amex-2006-17), as modified 
by Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, be, and hereby is, approved on an 
accelerated basis.
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    \19\ 5 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\20\
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    \20\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-11367 Filed 6-12-07; 8:45 am]
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