U.S. Exchanges Said to Seek Broader Trading Curbs
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U.S. stock exchanges will propose doubling the number of companies covered by a two-week-old test of trading curbs and expanding the program to include hundreds of exchange-traded funds, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. will ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to broaden circuit breakers triggered by 10 percent moves to Russell 1000 Index companies from those in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, according to the people, who declined to be identified because the information isn’t public. More than 300 ETFs including the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust would be covered, one of the people said.