Aug. 20, 2023
The hiding of swap data should have never happened. Markets need transparency and hiding this data from the public eye goes against everything that the US stock market stands for. The fact that the public data was hidden erodes confidence in our markets and raises many concerns about our regulators and why an action like this was needed. Public data should never be hidden and seeing as it has been pushed off longer than originally intended once before goes to show that whatever that data shows would be detrimental to the market and/or economy if it became public. Allowing a situation like this to arise in the first place is a disgrace. If telling the truth ruins something, it deserves to be ruined. As a household investor I am full in support of this proposal to bring swap data back to the public where it should remain