How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting the Global Stock Market?
Stock Market Trading Stopped 4 Times!
It may be alarming to know that the S&P initiated a
Level 1 market-spanning circuit breaker during the opening hours on three days
of March. These were the 9th, the 12th and the 16th. The breaker was based on a
big 7% drop from the previous period’s close. This fall nearly tripled on the
18th of March.
How do Circuit-Breakers Work?
The current guidelines on this format mandate that there
should be a 15-minute pause when people are panic-buying. Circuit-breaker
guidelines automatically initiate if there is a fall greater than 7% before
3:25 PM (New York Time). These breakers are there to calm the market down, and
give investors time to think over their decisions. It therefore initiates when
the market is becoming seemingly more volatile. There are several levels of
breaks. The first two of these are initiated to halt market trading for 15
minutes. The third breaker when initiated suspends further trading for the rest
of the day.
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