In October 2015, the NYSE and the National Investor Relations Institute submitted a petition requesting the SEC to adopt new rules that would require the periodic public disclosure of short-sale activities by institutional investment managers, along the same lines as the reporting currently required for long positions.
The petition advocates the SEC to "bring light to a less transparent and increasingly consequential corner of the securities market." It does not call on the SEC to impose additional restrictions on the practice of short selling.
The petition letter is available at: http://www.sec.gov/rules/petitions/2015/petn4-689.pdf
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