But Africa-focused miner Sundance Resources plummeted 45 percent as it came out of a three-week trading halt.
The double-whammy sent shares of the tech giant plummeting 10% and resulted in a trading halt that lasted roughly two hours and 15 minutes until 3:20pm EST.
On the UK market, a trade that kicks a stock 5% up or down in a single move will trigger a trading halt and a five minute trading auction.
In addition, procedures to halt trading if prices show too much volatility in a short period of time have been implemented since the flash crash occurred in 2010.
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Although the secondary market is still young, it is routine for companies to halt trading before an IPO to have time to account for its current shareholder base, said a person familiar with the secondary market.
Analysts also point out that the markets have other safeguards to keep them from falling too sharply, with circuit breakers that halt trading on the Dow Jones industrials after falls of 850, 1, 750 and 2, 600 points.
An onslaught of selling ensued that forced a temporary halt in trading.
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When I worked in Morgan Stanley's derivatives group in Tokyo during the 1990s, there was a mandatory halt to trading every day for 90 minutes during lunch.
But activity in the municipal-bond market ground to a halt Monday, as issuers postponed deals and trading wrapped up early.
Sony shares didn't start trading until around midday as technical problems on the Tokyo exchange forced a halt in dealings for 241 listed companies.
The value of goods sold in December was 0.1% lower than November, and 0.7% higher than a year ago, indicating that the price rises faced by shoppers came to a halt at the end of the year - although this could also reflect consumers trading down for cheaper versions of the goods they want.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has promised trading halts, lawsuits and other probes in its efforts to curb manipulation in the penny stock market--and halt a tsunami of e-mails touting these questionable securities.
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