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By Christopher Doering and Rachelle Younglai Christopher Doering And Rachelle Younglai – Fri?Nov?5, 1:26?am?ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators may get the ammunition they need to impose new market rules when they meet an advisory panel on Friday to discuss the May 6 plunge that briefly sent the equities market and related futures into a tailspin.

The 'flash crash' advisory group, composed of former regulators, financial players and a top economist, will review a government report that partially blames the dramatic market fall on a single trade by a mutual fund.

The panel is expected to discuss potential recommendations and give the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission justification to tinker further with market rules.

"They've obviously been under pressure to put recommendations out," said a Washington D.C.-based industry source.

"Do they put something generic out because they need to put something out, or have they actually come to some conclusion as to what they think the right changes are going forward?" asked the source.

CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler has said the meeting will help his agency as it grapples with curtailing practices it considers disruptive to markets.

The SEC is under pressure from some lawmakers to adopt rules to rein in high frequency traders, where computer-driven algorithms are used to quickly create and execute trades.

The flash crash report by the SEC and CFTC has riled some market players who say the $4.1 billion sale of e-mini futures contracts by Waddell & Reed Financial could not have caused the Dow Jones industrial average to plummet roughly 700 points in minutes before recovering.

"Absolutely there is a need for change, and the big question is should this change come from the industry or should it be imposed by regulators," said Michael Gorham, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and former director of the CFTC's division of market oversight.

RULES IN HORIZON

In response to the brief market crash, the SEC rolled out a "circuit breaker" program to give a company's stock a reprieve from trading if the stock is in free fall. The program ends December 10, and the SEC is pressuring exchanges to come up with a "limit up/limit down" proposal by early December, sources have said.

That would set temporary price ceilings and floors for single stocks and could slow big price changes without stopping trading.

The SEC also is mulling tighter rules for market makers to ensure they will be able to provide liquidity to markets and avoid a repeat of what happened during the flash crash when some market makers and big trading firms stopped trading and there were few buy orders for stocks.

Exchanges have submitted proposals to the SEC that would eliminate stub quotes, quotes that are priced well off the public price of a stock. The SEC has yet to approve of the proposal.

The SEC also is considering a new market wide "circuit breaker" to temporarily pause trading if a market is in crisis. Although there are market-wide circuit breakers in place already, they were not triggered on May 6.

(Reporting by Christopher Doering and Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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But also hit the latter was a mark of RBS, reaffirming their "sell" rating on the marks.

Speculation mounts on what leader Marc Bolland, M & S, will reveal in its strategic review next week - and if the plans will require a call to RBS trésorerie.Analystes believe that a "steady state progressive strategic day" may not require financing any.

But more radical measures to drive the brand overseas, investing in brands of clothing and resolve pension deficit may indeed need funding, analysts.This could come in the form of a sale and leaseback or a matter of rights, with the analysts believe the former would be most welcome option.

If Mr Bolland seriously is to broaden the international roll out, analysts believe "investment could run at least several hundreds of millions of books, up to half a billion" lekeage, they say, raises the question of funding and the impact of these funds on group returns.

Added analysts that Mr Bolland raise additional funds, they could not exclude mark acquisitions.cibles potential of clothing could be trademarks such as Jack Wills, worshipped by teenagers or Hobbs, preppy apparel provider string high-end clothing, women's raw broker.

Supermarkets were not to the liking of traders, with Tesco dropping return p 7.7 424.1 and Sainsbury's falling 6-384.2 p.Analystes evolution securities cut Tesco to "sell" to "reduce" but keep their price target 375 p.

"Tesco UK sales growth was below its rivals for over a year, and as the UK yet represents on 60pc of sales of the group, it is a concern, said analysts."

Slides for retailers has been a day restless FTSE 100 closed points 8.46 5748.97 as investors braced themselves for decision of the Federal Reserve on how to stimulate the u.s. economy.

The largest laggard was Cobham defence which 22.3 crumpled 211?p, after the Aerospace Electronics Group has warned on delays at United States .the analysts Charles Stanley said the Declaration "is equivalent to a profit warning contract.

But Killik & co retained their "buy" rating, saying: "even though the short-term outlook remains difficult, group remains positive Outlook means and long-term business."

"The statement says that the recently announced UK national security strategy and strategic defense and placed security review insists on the fight against terrorism and the need for technology in areas such as electronics, communications, security and intelligence," they added.

Champion of mining, Antofagasta, was the second-most Feller, excretion 61% to ￡ 13.23 as an increase in production of copper has been overshadowed by third quarter higher than expected costs.

Bucking trend was Admiral, such as the automobile insurer acquired 43 percent to ￡ 16.70 after revealing that its sales for the third quarter increased more 50pc.

The ranking at the top, has been Lloyds Banking Group, which ticked up to 1.81 to 69.2 percent after poached Bank Antonio Horta-Osorio de Santander's next Chief Executive.

Major BP oil has again on the rise, putting investors continued to digest its results for the third quarter and an upgrade of Goldman Sachs 439.3 7.65%.

The broker has increased BP to "buy" to "neutral", saying that the assessment was "very beneficial".

At the second level, carpentry Howden group surged hereditary 90 percent as the supplier of kitchen unit said expected profits before tax estimates from top market page.

FTSE 250 throw points 51.22 10876.28 with Partygaming, dropping back 17.9 221.1 p.Analystes Barclays Capital downgraded the company online - game and its partner fusion, bwin - "weight" from "overweight" due to concerns about the regulation of the industry it fo0llowed Davy a note on a similar theme earlier in the week.

Investors were clear direction of punch taverns, dropped from 3? % rate, such as Seymour Pierce has retained his "sell" rating on reports as Ambac pub group, U.S. bond insurer may face bankruptcy .Hugh-Guy Lorriman leisure Seymour Pierce, said that ambac insured a proportion of nominal debt higher than analyst within the punch securitizations.

He said the involvement of potential bankruptcy of Ambac was not clear, but could be material for stakeholders by perforation.Si insurance simply disappears, and the immediate result is the decommissioning of the punch underlying debt through debt, agencies, "will precipitate the discussion between the representatives of the debt and the other (especially equity) representatives," he said.

"What is the likely result of this? or holders of the debt (1) require additional capital injection to prevent the long-term holders probability or (2) debt default agreement on some form of"discount", or, as directives 2009, liquidate at a price", he added.

Petropavlovsk lost its luster, 35? 903?p, fall as Russian minor again lowered its orientation in the production of gold for the year .but Liberum Capital and the evolution of securities analysts have their rating "buy".the ' former said there is still "glimmers of encouragement."

Among the small caps Eaga took a fall after the company efficiency energy forecasting lower activity and warned that it may incur costs of restructuring of up to 20 m ￡ over the next two years, which seeks to mitigate the impact of the cuts in the warm front scheme which has developed internationally in the comprehensive spending review.

Shares slipped 6? 64?p with Panmure Gordon decommissioning Eaga analysts to "sell", "buy".

"It is difficult to see where new buyers will come at this stage, and we are seeing actions such as"dead money"cut so we recommend a sale price" said broker.

AIM-listed GW Pharmaceuticals checked 5-92 p on its multiple sclerosis derived from cannabis medicine get green light in New Zealand.

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