Gary Gensler, SEC chair (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP Images)

Up­dat­ed: SEC chair de­nies a deal to pre­vent Chi­nese com­pa­ny delist­ing is close — re­ports

The SEC chair is re­port­ed­ly throw­ing cold wa­ter on US and Chi­nese reg­u­la­tors reach­ing a deal that would pre­vent hun­dreds of firms from be­ing delist­ed on Amer­i­can stock ex­changes, in­clud­ing biotech and phar­ma com­pa­nies, de­spite ru­mors to the con­trary.

SEC boss Gary Gensler said late Tues­day he is not sure when a deal might be reached to stave off the delist­ings, Bloomberg re­port­ed, even as he not­ed progress had been made. US reg­u­la­tors had been aim­ing to con­duct more ag­gres­sive au­dits with the Chi­nese com­pa­nies, a move he says Chi­na’s gov­ern­ment has re­sist­ed.

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