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	176,846.36 409.77M	-0.62% -1109.15
ALLSHR	107,272.74 784.99M	-0.45% -487.35
KSE30	52,438.23 109.21M	-0.80% -423.49
KMI30	248,794.52 113.36M	-0.65% -1628.55
KMIALLSHR	68,802.42 561.58M	-0.38% -262.45
BKTi	50,360.41 21.24M	-1.11% -567.14
OGTi	35,490.67 21.72M	0.06% 20.80

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	68,175.00	69,895.00 64,185.00	3460.00 5.35%
BRENT CRUDE	92.05	92.81 90.40	1.03 1.13%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	110.00	0.00 0.00	0.50 0.46%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	122.50	122.50 122.50	-0.45 -0.37%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,175.00	1,175.00 1,175.00	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	84.98	85.84 83.45	0.92 1.09%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	17.56	17.66 17.31	0.09 0.52%