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August 24, 2015 at 07:42 AM
(Bloomberg) — If U.S. stocks extend their losses, traders will get a moment to catch their breath.
The thousands of companies listed by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market will pause for 15 minutes if the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index plunges 7 percent before 3:25 p.m. New York time. The benchmark got close earlier, falling as much as 5.3 percent.
Market-wide circuit breakers were installed after the 1987 crash to prevent losses from snowballing. The levels that trigger a halt have varied over the years, with a rule change in 2013 lowering the threshold to 7 percent.
