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<text id=91TT1200>
<title>
June 03, 1991: Business Notes:Markets
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 47
Business Notes
MARKETS
Buying Time
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<p> The peal of the 4 p.m. closing bell is one of the enduring
symbols of Manhattan's New York Stock Exchange. Increasingly,
it is also one of its most antiquated. Modern moneymaking is a
24-hour-a-day enterprise. Overseas exchanges, active when it is
nighttime in New York City, are eating into the Big Board's
business. More than 70 U.S. companies are traded on the Tokyo
Stock Exchange, and close to 200 list their securities in
London.
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<p> In a long anticipated response, Securities and Exchange
Commission Chairman Richard Breeden last week announced the
first step toward what may well become round-the-clock trading
at the N.Y.S.E.--an experimental two-year extension of trading
hours beyond the 4 o'clock close. Starting June 13, individual
investors will be able to buy and sell stocks up to 5 p.m. at
4 p.m. prices, while holders of multiple-stock portfolios--typically institutions--will wheel and deal until 5:15. "The
proposal before us may seem incremental," said Breeden, "but its
effect will be felt around the world as a sign that U.S. markets
are changing their habits to meet the needs of an increasingly
globalized marketplace."
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