COVID-19 has tested stock exchanges’ circuit breakers, with investors panic selling as the viral outbreak continues to spread. But what are circuit breakers and how do they differ across major markets ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

But many investors and others may not know what the market circuit breaker is and why it is so important. What is a market circuit breaker? How does a circuit breaker work? What are single-stock ...

Traditional exchanges have been using “circuit breakers” to curb panic selling, and it might be time for crypto exchanges to follow suit. Yesterday, March 9, trading on the New York Stock Exchange was ...

While stocks are off their 52-week lows today, the weight of additional tariffs on China -- and harsher retaliatory countermeasures -- has volatility at a fever pitch. Earlier today, the Cboe ...

BRITS could face a so-called circuit-breaker lockdown after Christmas 2021 in order to curb the spread of the Omicron variant. Plans are being drawn up to bring in a lockdown lasting two weeks in ...

There has been a lot of discussion about "circuit breaker lockdowns" and "circuit break restrictions" recently, but what are they and where do they come from? Circuit breakers involve the introduction ...

Northern Ireland is going to start a two-week circuit-breaker lockdown on Friday 27 November. It follows the use of a 17-day "firebreak" to try to stem Covid cases in Wales. A circuit-breaker is a ...