For the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) circuit breakers have three tiers. These circuit breakers react to the price change in the S&P 500. The first tier is a 7% decline in the S&P 500.

The only exception to this rule is if trading trips the circuit breaker at 3:25 p.m. Eastern time. The New York Stock Exchange closes at 4 p.m. Eastern, so if it's late in the day when a market ...

For the second time this week trading on the New York Stock Exchange halted for 15 minutes this morning when a market drop triggered the exchange’s internal circuit breaker, shortly after 9:30am.

Those ‘circuit breaker’ levels are designed to reduce market volatility by forcing a pause in trading activity for certain periods of time. The NYSE posted a note on its Web site explaining ...

The New York Stock Exchange is planning to review the effectiveness of market-wide systems designed to dampen extreme volatility after circuit-breakers were tripped several times last month during ...

The circuit breaker would have shut down trading on the NYSE for 30 minutes. If you are a trader with an average stock ownership time of 11 seconds you want to avoid a 30 minute forced hold like ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The New York Stock Exchange is implementing new circuit breaker and trading collar rules as of Oct. 1. Trading will halt for one hour if the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has announced the implementation plans for its new circuit-breaker collar trigger levels for second quarter 2008, effective 1 April. The New York Stock Exchange ...

Plans by the New York Stock Exchange to start implementing circuit breakers for S&P 500 stocks next Monday have been delayed as they await approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ditching the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the New York Stock Exchange said this week that come February its circuit breakers will be based solely on the broader S&P 500. The circuit breaker ...

See About archive blog posts. The New York Stock Exchange has ‘circuit breakers’ in place that are designed to temporarily halt trading in the event of a market freefall. But it would take a ...