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But a flurry of last-minute trading Monday and Tuesday all but eliminated the final few issues that stood in the way of an agreement.
Prices are being set by minute-by-minute trading, so we cannot look to daily market moves to validate our opinions or thesis as an investor".
If the abnormal trading continues for more than 15 seconds, according to the S.E.C., then a five-minute trading pause would kick in.
The circuit breakers call for a five-minute trading halt if a stock's price moves 10 percent or more in either direction in a five-minute period.
Spain's IBEX 35, which shed 3% in last-minute trading after S&P struck, rose 0.2% in early trading while the German DAX rose 0.4% before slipping back.
Selling intensified after a brief 15-minute trading halt early in the afternoon when main indexes had shed 5%, and activity in Shanghai and Shenzhen was halted for the day soon after.
The index was down as much as 12percentt, causing a 20-minute trading halt, before rebounding somewhat to close 8percentt lower at 577.56, the weakest level since March 1999.
If trading is unable to occur within the price band for more than 15 seconds, a five-minute trading pause would be initiated on that specific stock, allowing market participants to find a new price at which to reopen trading, the S.E.C. said.
However, "Problems in Europe were more severe, where derivatives markets run by NYSE Euronext reported a 90-minute trading engine outage that forced a delayed open for interest-rate and stock-index contracts, while driving erroneous calculations of equity indexes compiled by the exchange group," the article said.
During closing arguments in the insider trading trial of Rajat K. Gupta on Wednesday, a prosecutor distilled a dizzying number of exhibits — phone records, board minutes, trading logs and e-mails — into a cogent narrative of the government's case.
