Market-wide Circuit Breakers Planned

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Tue, 05/18/2010 - 9:11am

Market-Wide Circuit Breakers Planned

U.S. stock exchanges and regulators will likely propose market-wide safeguards to be launched in a six-month pilot program, starting June 14.

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