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The NYSE will implement an SEC experiment.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed an experiment in hopes of dampening the wild price fluctuations that can whipsaw market investors in the final minutes of “triple-witching” Fridays. The agreement calls for the Big Board to publicly disclose major imbalances in market-closing orders for key stocks on days when stock options, stock index options and futures contracts expire simultaneously. There are four such triple-witching days each year, on the third Fridays of March, June, September and December. The experiment will begin on the next one, Sept. 19.

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