Stock Market

SEC extends short sale ban

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE49107K20081002

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday extended an emergency ban on short selling in more than 950 financial stocks to give Congress time to finish legislation to rescue the financial system.

It’s now 950, not 699 of them. And they’re not all financials.