Japan March Bond Futures Trade Halted for 30 Seconds on Plunge
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Trading of Japan’s government bond futures for delivery this month was halted for less than a minute after the price of the contracts dropped as much as 0.6 percent.
The so-called dynamic circuit breaker started at 12:32 p.m. in Tokyo and only applied to March contracts for about 30 seconds Wednesday, according to Masaki Takahashi, who works in the market management department at the Osaka Securities Exchange.