The US stock market was down on Thursday(Bloomberg) As almost all major stocks plummeted, several investors wondered if a circuit breaker would be placed on the Nasdaq. A circuit breaker is ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 2,150 points ... Investors are now closely monitoring whether a Nasdaq circuit breaker will be triggered in response to the market's sharp decline. The ...

Here's what to know about so-called “circuit breakers" and when they're used to halt trading on stock markets.

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Market-wide circuit breakers, may halt trading temporarily or, under extreme circumstances, close the markets before the normal close of the trading session. (The New York Times) The US stock ...

there have been five trading days in which trading activity tripped the circuit breakers: October 27, 1997: In response to a significant decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the ...

Reuters The development of such circuit breakers came after the Black Monday event, which occurred on October 19, 1987. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 22.6 per cent, which remains the ...

Circuit breakers, or trading curbs, were first instituted for U.S. markets after the Black Monday crash of 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 22 percent in a single day.