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To: Don Green who started this subject6/29/2003 5:49:07 AM
From: Don Green   of 50368
 
SEC and NYSE Propose Rethinking Decimalization

By Susan Harrigan
STAFF WRITER

June 29, 2003

Just when small investors appear to be inching back into the stock market, some on Wall Street - including two powerful regulators - are proposing a study that could lead to higher trading costs for the little guy.

Amid a chorus of complaints from brokerages and some large institutional investors who say that "decimalization," or pricing stocks in pennies, has cost them money, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said in an interview with CNBC last month that "the whole issue of decimalization needs to be looked at." Shortly afterward, New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso said he supported that idea.

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