Document ID: SEC-2018-0388-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: NYSE Arca, Inc.
Posted Date: 2018-03-07T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 7, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9768-9769]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-04556]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-82795; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2018-02]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of 
Designation of a Longer Period for Commission Action on a Proposed Rule 
Change Relating to Listing and Trading of the Direxion Daily Bitcoin 
Bear 1X Shares, Direxion Daily Bitcoin 1.25X Bull Shares, Direxion 
Daily Bitcoin 1.5X Bull Shares, Direxion Daily Bitcoin 2X Bull Shares 
and Direxion Daily Bitcoin 2X Bear Shares Under NYSE Arca Rule 8.200-E

March 1, 2018.
    On January 4, 2018, NYSE Arca, Inc. (``NYSE Arca'') filed with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to 
Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act'') \1\ 
and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a proposed rule change to list and trade 
the shares of the Direxion Daily Bitcoin Bear 1X Shares, Direxion Daily 
Bitcoin 1.25X Bull Shares, Direxion Daily Bitcoin 1.5X Bull Shares,

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Direxion Daily Bitcoin 2X Bull Shares and Direxion Daily Bitcoin 2X 
Bear Shares Under NYSE Arca Rule 8.200-E. The proposed rule change was 
published for comment in the Federal Register on January 24, 2018.\3\ 
The Commission has received no comments on the proposed rule change.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 82532 (Jan. 18, 
2018), 83 FR 3380 (Jan. 24, 2018).
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    Section 19(b)(2) of the Act \4\ provides that within 45 days of the 
publication of notice of the filing of a proposed rule change, or 
within such longer period up to 90 days as the Commission may designate 
if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its 
reasons for so finding or as to which the self-regulatory organization 
consents, the Commission shall either approve the proposed rule change, 
disapprove the proposed rule change, or institute proceedings to 
determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved. The 
Commission is extending this 45-day time period. The Commission finds 
that it is appropriate to designate a longer period within which to 
take action on the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time 
to consider the proposed rule change.
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    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
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    Accordingly, the Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the 
Act,\5\ designates April 24, 2018, as the date by which the Commission 
shall either approve or disapprove, or institute proceedings to 
determine whether to disapprove, the proposed rule change (File No. SR-
NYSEArca-2018-02).
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    \5\ Id.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\6\
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    \6\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(31).
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Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-04556 Filed 3-6-18; 8:45 am]
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