While we have become used to the almost daily trading-halts in Japanese government bonds, when the CME reports that Silver trading was halted four times overnight, it is increasingly clear that this market is anything but ‘normal’:
*SILVER TRADING WAS HALTED FOUR TIMES OVERNIGHT, CME GROUP SAYS
*SILVER TRADING WAS STOPPED FOUR TIMES IN 20-SECOND HALTS
*SILVER TRADING WAS HALTED IN `STOP-LOGIC EVENTS’, CME SAYS
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/silver-halted-4-times-overnight-amid-flash-crash
Is The SEC Telling Us Something? Schapiro To Cut Global Circuit Breaker Thresholds By 33%
by ZH
Remember the below chart which we are so fond of posting on Zero Hedge occasionally? Well, it will have to be redone very soon, because the SEC has just submitted a proposal for public comment to cut market-wide circuit breakers in half from the current thresholds of 10%, 20% and 30%, by 33%. And if the SEC is actually proactively looking at something such as [...]