A steep stock-market selloff on Thursday again had investors on the lookout for a potential trading halt, as the S&P 500 slipped toward the threshold that would trigger an initial “circuit ...

The steep selloff was again threatening to put the market's circuit-breaker rule in play. That dictates that a fall of 7% for the S&P 500 before 3:25 p.m. Eastern time results in a marketwide ...

“If you have a broken radio and you have the circuit diagram, you’ll be in a better position to fix it,” MICrONS team member Nuno da Costa, an associate investigator at the Allen ...

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