Wall Street pauses trading after stocks sink, Dow -7.2%

MG News | March 12, 2020 at 07:10 PM GMT+05:00

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March 12, 2020: Trading on Wall Street was halted just moments into Thursday's session after US stocks plunged further on the deepening economic pain from the coronavirus.

Trading was suspended after the S&P 500 dropped 7.0 percent to 2,549.05, triggering an automatic 15-minute suspension.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 7.2 percent to 21,856.91, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 7.0 percent to 7,393.25.

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Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	159,096.79 286.00M	-0.30% -481.40
ALLSHR	96,671.31 956.17M	-0.27% -260.40
KSE30	48,148.75 102.85M	-0.46% -220.17
KMI30	227,277.27 68.51M	-0.56% -1278.41
KMIALLSHR	62,859.90 336.58M	-0.52% -331.18
BKTi	44,327.12 35.20M	-0.45% -200.35
OGTi	30,536.59 6.65M	-0.82% -252.55

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	102,430.00	104,590.00 100,610.00	-1810.00 -1.74%
BRENT CRUDE	63.32	64.34 62.84	-0.20 -0.31%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	87.25	87.25 87.25	0.10 0.11%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	97.10	97.10 96.50	-0.10 -0.10%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,082.50	1,082.50 1,082.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	59.35	60.51 58.83	-0.25 -0.42%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	14.22	14.44 14.04	0.11 0.78%