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 is going to announce its new emergency circuit breakers. That is, if the Dow Industrials fall by a certain amount, trading comes to a halt. We asked Jeremy Hobson what ...

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 New York Stock Exchange set the circuit-breaker thresholds for the first quarter of 2010. The exchange first implemented the circuit breakers in the wake of the market's crash in October 1997.

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 ...

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.

It would need to fall 7% to trigger the first market-wide New York Stock Exchange circuit breaker. The second circuit breaker kicks in at a 13% decline in the S&P 500. Each of the first two ...

These circuit breakers indicate excessive short-term volatility, but they shouldn't worry long-term investors. According to NYSE President Stacey Cunningham, circuit breakers "are designed to slow ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The New York Stock Exchange announced its first-quarter 2008 "circuit-breaker" trigger levels that would halt trading for certain large market declines. Circuit-breaker levels are set ...

But if, despite this, the drop reaches -20%, the stock exchange closes for the rest of the day. This is the level 3 Circuit Breaker. Permanent decline A crash of -22% in a single day is no longer ...

Stocks for both semiconductor giants fell by nearly 10% that day, triggering circuit breakers for the Taiwanese market as a whole. According to Reuters, Taiwan Stock Exchange Chairman Sherman Lin ...