NEW YORK (Reuters) - A plunge in U.S. markets on Monday triggered a 15-minute trading halt in stocks after the S&P 500 fell 7% shortly after the market opened. The declines came as tumbling oil prices ...

On Wall Street, "circuit breakers'' refer to stock market trading halts that prevent markets from spiraling out of control when prices drop too quickly. These circuit breakers indicate excessive short ...

Stock market circuit breakers are used to temporarily stop the trading of all securities in the event of rapid, steep downturns in broad market pricing. Circuit breakers trigger automatically on every ...

Circuit breakers are trading halts or curbs put in place to quell volatility and avert further market panic. First implemented after the Black Monday crash of 1987, circuit breakers have been ...

Circuit breakers were triggered in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan's stock markets as they reacted to President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Monday, with U.S. markets opening the week sharply ...

Fears that the major U.S. financial markets would follow other markets as they dropped on Friday prompted the (NYSE) to highlight rules about market-wide trading halts that kick in when indices ...