The New York Stock Exchange has a backdoor safety valve it can use to freeze trading if a market sell-off turns grim, but Monday's plunge wasn't even close to the levels required to trigger such interventions.
Markets sank across the board Monday as investors punished risk assets after reports that the coronavirus continued to spread outside of China to near-neighbor South Korea and Europe, stoking fears that the disease could curtail global growth.
Even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,000 points and the S&P 500 slid 3.6% at their lows, each index remained well above the thresholds required to impose what NYSE calls "market-wide circuit breakers," a set of procedures the equities and options exchanges have at their disposal to halt cross-market trading.
A cross-market trading halt can be triggered at three breaker thresholds that measure a decrease against the prior day's closing price of the S&P 500 index.
- Level 1 — The first halt begins if the S&P 500 falls 7% and lasts 15 minutes.
- Level 2 — The second halt begins if the S&P 500 falls 13% and also lasts 15 minutes.
- Level 3 — The third and final halt begins if the S&P 500 falls 20% and lasts the remainder of the trading day.
To be sure, marketwide halts are rare and are usually associated with broader economic fears of recession.
The last time the NYSE imposed a Level 1 halt occurred on Dec. 1, 2008, when the S&P 500 closed down 8.9% in one of the worst trading sessions of the last 15 years. The last time the S&P 500 fell more than 13% in a single session was on Oct. 19, 1987, when the market closed down more than 20% in a day now known on Wall Street as "Black Monday."
Regulators overhauled trade-clearing protocols and introduced the circuit breakers after that dramatic fall, meaning that U.S. investors have never seen a Level 2 or Level 3 halt.
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