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In the December 2024 of Market Structure Insights we cover:
- President-Elect Trump’s picks to lead economic policy, and what it means for tariffs, taxes, trade, and financial regulation;
- the SEC’s conditional approval of extended hours trading on an exchange;
- how another Texas court predictably vacated the SEC’s “Dealer” rule;
- how the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals predictably vacated the SEC’s approval of Nasdaq listings rules related to diversity;
- a recent Nasdaq filing to jack up fees on its data products and perpetually hike them for inflation — irrespective of the competitiveness of the products or their costs;
- the SEC’s and CFTC’s enforcement efforts for Fiscal Year 2024;
- the SEC ‘s approval of the long-overdue CT Plan for market data;
- an antitrust lawsuit against large asset managers for … [checks notes] … manipulating fossil fuel markets;
- the crypto industry’s near instantaneous efforts to collect its returns on its unprecedented investment in the 2024 US elections;
- the Congressional efforts to impose restrictions on outbound investments into China;
- the selection of former banker and treasury official, Representative French Hill (R-AR) to lead the House Financial Services Committee; and
- how “reconciliation” might be used to reshape the government (and taxes, and housing policy).
Plus full coverage of the markets and more.