Niederauer says he expects that the SEC will extend the emergency order, as it did for a much narrower emergency short-selling restrictions order during the summer.

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Yet regulators have insisted with short-selling bans in order to stanch the bleeding when market turmoil turns up the heat on beleaguered financial stocks, most recently in Spain and Italy.

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With the expiration looming on an emergency Securities and Exchange Commission order banning short-selling in hundreds of financial company stocks, exchanges are working toward a permanent solution that would involve all stocks.

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In order to protect its banks, France banned forms of short selling last week, along with three other European countries.

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