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> several prominent investors and executives have asked the Trump administration to bring back a legacy securities regulation called the “uptick rule,” according to a White House adviser.

> The rule, which got scrapped in 2007 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, bars short sellers from betting against stocks when their prices are falling. To place a so-called short bet that the stock will continue to fall, investors must wait for it to rise.

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> The uptick rule is a trading restriction that states that short selling a stock is only allowed on an uptick. For the rule to be satisfied, the short must be either at a price above the last traded price of the security, or at the last traded price when the most recent movement between traded prices was upward