When the Dow dropped 350 points, the first circuit breaker kicked in, around 2:35 p.m.
An investigation found that part of the generator's circuit breaker had been put together backward.
What's the circuit breaker that would prevent the tumbling dominoes of bank and sovereign defaults?
The stock was halted by a circuit breaker twice, as traders flooded the system.
What's required, according to many analysts, is a circuit breaker in the transmission mechanism of fear.
The SEC received 26 comment letters on the circuit breaker rules before finalizing them on June 10.
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It works like the circuit breaker in your basement, but it's a lot bigger and much noisier.
Flight controllers tried to restart the disabled ammonia pump early on Sunday but the circuit breaker tripped again.
When Houston woke us several hours later, they told me what to do to fix the circuit breaker.
The surges and plunges past the limit triggered five "circuit breaker" halts in trade during the past week.
Once the rules that govern the system are broken, moral hazard ceases to be an impediment, a circuit breaker.
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The new circuit breaker is a far more limited restriction on short selling.
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Update: NYSE Euronext opened for trading, up 18% then it triggered a circuit breaker on the back of this news.
The Securities and Exchange Commission finalized the new circuit breaker rules last month in response to the May 6 market crash.
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The NYSE has a circuit breaker in place, so the exchange shut off trading for a period of time to quell panic.
The NYSE installed a de-facto circuit breaker in 2006 to deter panic.
And the week before, shares of Washington Post company were also halted under the new circuit breaker rules after a single erroneous order entry.
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Previously, the circuit breaker had kicked in only four times since it was introduced in 2000, all of them during the credit-crisis turmoil of 2008.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday it has approved new circuit breaker rules in response to the market disruption that took place on May 6.
Mr. BUSBY: Well, what happens is when the air condition cuts on, and I have the--if I accidentally cut on the microwave, then it blows the circuit breaker.
Grant says this year's vintage, which saw a fall in grape tonnage harvested of about a third, might act as "circuit breaker" to help ease pressure on an oversupplied market.
Nevertheless, what is clear today is that the EU policy elite has chosen banking union as the circuit breaker rather than an attempt to create ever larger firewalls around sovereign debt.
Everything, all of the electronics on the vehicle itself, every component had its own solid-state circuit breaker so that we could turn things on and off, and control what was happening.
The problem is that bankers' view of the supposed optimal size of the circuit breaker, in the form of an expanded eurozone rescue fund, the EFSF, is growing by the day.
The narrow quoting band being discussed would fall within the circuit breaker limits put in place last month that suspend trading in a stock that moves 10% or more from its price.
If you'll recall, the Circuit Breaker was actually one of our favorite gadgets of 2011, but curiously, we never could pinpoint when and where these were set to go on sale.
Splunk is driving a bar chart by processing a signal from his circuit breaker every few seconds, and sure enough, the electrical usage went down by the same percentage that he turned the rheostat down.
Under the existing circuit breaker pilot, trading in a stock pauses across the U.S. equity markets for a five-minute period if the stock experiences a 10 percent change in price over the preceding five minutes.
An LED power indicator glows to signal that the device is ready to charge, and its internal SmartFuse protects against power fluctuations as it charges with a built-in circuit breaker, and no fuses to replace.
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In a vacuum, a conventional circuit breaker -- which measures heat across a load -- doesn't work, because there, there's less or no atmosphere there to draw the heat off, so a conventional circuit breaker would trip.
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