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SEC Chairman on market chaos amid coronavirus-driven volatility
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton joins “Squawk Box” by phone to discuss the markets as the U.S. futures trigger “limit down” levels.…
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Mortgage bankers warn Fed mortgage purchases unbalanced market, forcing margin calls
By Steve Liesman
March 29, 2020, CNBC
The Mortgage Bankers Association in a dire letter to regulators Sunday warned that the U.S. housing market is “in danger of large-scale disruption,” …
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Banks say Fed rescue threatens mortgage hedging strategies
By Laura Noonan and Robert Armstrong
March 31, 2020, Financial Times
Big Wall Street banks have quietly joined with U.S. home lenders in calling for regulatory action to prevent the …
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Wall Street Says Some Broker Duties Can’t Be Done From Home
By Dave Michaels
March 28, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
The new coronavirus hasn’t shut down financial markets, thanks to electronic trading. But some tasks on Wall Street, it turns …
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Mnuchin Wants Markets Open, Focused on Mortgage Firms’ Liquidity
By Ben Bain and Saleha Mohsin
March 26, 2020, Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reiterated Thursday that he wants U.S. financial markets to remain open even as the coronavirus fuels …
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SEC Gives Relief to Mutual Funds Facing Redemption Issues
By Dave Michaels, Justin Baer, and Paul Kiernan
March 24, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Mutual funds facing stress from the market turmoil caused by coronavirus will be able to …
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U.S. finance industry says markets must stay open during epidemic
By Huw Jones
March 20, 2020, Reuters
Keeping U.S. markets open during the coronavirus epidemic is critical for maintaining investor confidence, exchanges and market industry bodies said in a joint …
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Could shutting exchanges stop the markets rot?
By Philip Stafford
March 17, 2020, Financial Times
As worries over coronavirus sweep through markets, generating sharp bouts of volatility, some regulators are beginning to push for trading to be …
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Traders Question Value of Stock Market Circuit Breakers
By Alexander Osipovich
March 16, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Decades of little-noticed efforts to build guardrails for wild market moves have gotten a rare workout in recent days as …
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Regulators Respond to COVID-19
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis continues to cause significant impact to people’s lives, businesses, and the wider …
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