Securities and Exchange Commission August 20, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Securities and Exchange Commission is re-opening the comment period to the ``Amendments to Regulation SHO'' it proposed in Securities Exchange Act Release No. 59748 (Apr. 10, 2009), 74 FR 18042 (Apr. 20, 2009) (the ``Proposal''). As a supplement to our request for comment on the Proposal, we are soliciting additional feedback regarding an alternative price test, on which we solicited comment in the Proposal, that would allow short selling only at a price above the current national best bid (the ``alternative uptick rule''). We are publishing this supplemental request for comment and reopening the comment period to help ensure that the public has a full opportunity to provide comments on the alternative uptick rule.