More recently, Russian and Eastern European stock markets were shut when stocks worldwide were being dumped.
New York Stock Exchange said its member firms' profits fell 84% in the third quarter, after Sept. 11 air attacks shut down stock markets.
"And if they don't listen," the briefing continues," if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they've done so many times before... then, with Gandhian ferocity, we'll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe... we'll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear".
There aren't a lot of things that have shut down the stock exchange".
Beijing has closed its theatres and discos, and Shanghai and Shenzhen have shut down their stock exchanges.
More recently, tech venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya asserted, "If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.
Nightmare scenarios include computer attacks that shut down the stock exchange, a nuclear power plant, the nation's rail system or all three at once.
On Thursday, the government took over the last of the country's three major banks and shut down the stock exchange, while trading in the Icelandic krona ceased.
Iceland is discussing an aid package with the International Monetary Fund, a week after Reykjavik seized its three largest banks and shut down its stock market.
But the odds against it grew worse on Thursday when the government took over the last of three major banks and shut down the stock exchange.
Mr. Sorkin had returned to the S.E.C. in May 1984 for a two-year stint as its New York regional administrator, where he fought just as fiercely to shut down penny stock frauds, he said.
