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Circuit breaker will be live in two weeks says SEC


The US Securities and Exchange Commission has said it expects to implement by Friday June 18 its proposed ‘circuit breaker’ rule to shut down trading in stocks that fall too fast.

The rule, which would oblige national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) to halt trading in stocks if they fell more than 10% in five minutes, was devised after the...

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