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The Securities and Exchange Commission will held a roundtable on to discuss whether short sale price test restrictions or short sale circuit breakers should be adopted. The roundtable Webcast has been posted.

Agenda and Panelists Roundtable to Examine Short Sale Price Test and Circuit Breaker Restrictions

10:10 a.m. — Panel One: Market Changes and Investor Confidence; Are short sale price tests or short sale circuit breakers necessary or effective?
Kevin Cronin, Invesco
Brian Conroy, Fidelity Investments
Richard Ketchum, FINRA
John Kozak, Park National Bank Corporation
Dan Mathisson, Credit Suisse
Michael McAlevey, General Electric Corporation
Justin Schack, Rosenblatt Securities

11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. — Break

11:30 a.m. — Panel Two: Bid versus Tick versus Circuit Breakers; Discussion of short sale price tests and short sale circuit breakers.
Jeff Brown, Charles Schwab Corporation
Larry Leibowitz, The New York Stock Exchange
John Nagel, The Citadel Group
Bill O’Brien, Direct Edge
Jerry O’Connell, Susquehanna International Group
Brett Redfearn, JP Morgan Chase

12:45 p.m. — Lunch Break

1:45 p.m. — Panel Three: Lessons and Insights from Empirical Data; Short sale price tests and short sale circuit breakers by the numbers.
Professor James Angel, Georgetown University
Dr. Frank Hatheway, Nasdaq OMX Group
Professor Charles Jones, Columbia University
Dr. Robert Shapiro, Sonecon, LLC
Professor Ingrid Werner, The Ohio State University

3:00 p.m. — Closing Remarks