Sentence examples for halt trading from inspiring English sources
Shares of Jefferies dropped about 20 percent, to $9.79, prompting the exchange to halt trading.
The SEC has since introduced "circuit-breakers" for individual shares that halt trading across all markets.
"It took a human two minutes to discover something was wrong and halt trading," he said.
Later that month, he instructed a junior trader to temporarily halt trading.
After the flash crash, exchanges introduced circuit breakers to halt trading after violent moves.
But Air New Zealand asked the Australian Stock Exchange to halt trading in Ansett's stock.
"They tried to make everybody else halt trading while they cleaned it up.
But the exchange took no public action against A.C.L.N. and did not halt trading.
As sell orders forced the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading in stock after stock, word came that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was threatening to halt trading in stock index futures.
When the panic was at its worst, and the exchange began to halt trading in important stocks because of a lack of buy orders, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange threatened to halt trading in stock index futures.
The absence of a unified system to halt trading in individual stocks led to bitter accusations between exchanges on Friday.
