MTR officials on Thursday apologised for the inconvenience caused by the five-hour disruption of the Tseung Kwan O Line and revealed there were signs of a short circuit in overhead cable ...

Here's what to know about so-called “circuit breakers" and when they're used to halt trading on stock markets.

CSE trading was halted yesterday after a sensitive index dropped 5.30-pct 20 minutes after resuming its trading activities following massive selling pressure. This was also mainly due to US President ...

Stock Market Crash: The Indian market also has the circuit breaker system, where the lower circuit is applied if Nifty 50 or the BSE Sensex falls. The share market fell sharply today (Monday, April 7, ...

Japanese stock futures trading was briefly suspended Monday morning local time due to a circuit breaker. This came after the Dow Jones and S&P 500 Futures fell 4% each amid fears of a ‘Black ...

While this certainly feels like a significant decline, the index would have to drop to 5,018.76 to trigger the first circuit breaker. So it still has some way to go.

One more city in China recently launched a pilot of the "circuit breaker mechanism" for homework, which allows students to stop working even if their homework is unfinished, with parental approval ...

“If you need to have more people to manage the 80-hour circuit breaker, are those the people who get cut? I’m a little bit afraid of that,” said one junior banker at a large Wall Street bank.

There hasn't been a marketwide circuit breaker since. The S&P 500 doesn't appear to be in danger of tripping a marketwide circuit breaker in early afternoon trade but remains sharply lower on the day.

A circuit breaker protects an overloaded circuit by shutting off and interrupting the flow of electricity. Circuit breakers are used in residential, commercial, and industrial settings.