(Only recently, when the Treasury announced it was halting its auctions, did mortgage bond prices start to stabilize).
Marsh said a day after it was sued that it was halting its payment agreements, often referred to as contingency fees or placement service agreements.
On February 4th the Bank of England said it was halting its purchases of gilts, though Mervyn King, the governor, said it was "far too soon to conclude that no more would be needed".
Last week, the Defense Department said it was halting its anthrax vaccination program for military personnel in reaction to a court ruling that service members could not be forced to take the vaccine.
A few weeks earlier, Royal Dutch Shell had announced it was halting its $7 billion oil drilling effort in the Chukchi Sea.
In a posting on its Swedish Facebook page, Ikea first confirmed it was halting all sales of meatballs at its stores in the country.
The firefighters' union also said it was halting negotiations on its 2008-10 contract in response to the new police contract.
Aberdeen Fund Management announced on Wednesday it was halting trading in its property fund for 24 hours and devaluing it by 17% – thought to be the biggest adjustment ever made by a property fund.
The Indian company announced on Friday night that it was halting the sale of its UK business, which employs 11,000 people.
The Department of Defense announced late Tuesday that it was halting, at least temporarily, its program of administering the anthrax vaccine to military personnel.
And the P.K.K., the Kurdish separatist group, announced that it was halting the withdrawal of its fighters from Turkey, in a sign of the troubled negotiations between the government and the Kurdish group to end three decades of armed conflict.
