Short-Selling Study

Short Selling Study -- The View of Corporate Issuers, October 17, 2008

Senior management of public companies generally view the practice of short selling of stock to be harmful during periods of market volatility and favor the implementation of new rules and disclosure requirements that protect the interests of issuers and shareholders, according to a new study on short selling conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of NYSE Euronext. The survey among corporate issuers in America and abroad follows the Oct. 8, 2008 expiration of the SEC's emergency order that banned short selling in hundreds of financial companies. A total of 438 chief executive officers, chief financial officers, and investor relations officials of public companies listed on NYSE Euronext exchanges and Nasdaq responded to the survey, which was conducted during the week of Oct. 14, 2008.

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