U.S. to tighten disclosure rules for investors who short stocks

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday unveiled a pair of proposals that would broaden the data short sellers must disclose about their bets that stocks will fall.

The new rules would offer the public visibility into aggregated data around large short positions for individual equity securities, the SEC said.

The proposals would also impose a…