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Regulatory commission suspend its circuit breaker system which halts trading in order to ease panic selling. a 7% dropped triggered circuit breakers. they went into effect this monday. we have the same systems with trading halted for 15 minutes with the s&p dropping 7% and 13%. back in the u.s., here this morning, weekly jobless claims came in at 277,000, so this is a signal the labor markets remains on more solid footing, despite slower economic growth. investors watching for tomorrows job repo...

In. the market goes down by 5%. and theres a 15-minute pause. after that 15-minute pause. trading begins again. this time, the equivalent of fire! and everybody is heading for the door. the market falls some 7%, and the market then under the regulations has to close for the day. what you have here is a perfect storm of fundamental news, speculative and technical factors, circuit breakers. did they make the situation worse? did they cause the crisis? probably not. they did what they were supposed...

Live on a very sunny day there in beijing. mondays market slide in china could have been a whole lot worth. circuit breakers stopped trading in times of extreme volatility. richard quest explains how it all works. >> it was the first major test of these circuit breakers. and nobody could have really forecast exactly how they were going to be so tested to destruction. the reasons why they were activated, first of all, you had a jolt of bad manufacturing data. there was the 10th month of shrinki...

Blanketing the early states. youll hear from this hour. armed men occupy a federal building in oregon. theyre refusing to leave. what happens if law enforcement trues to force them out? new developments ahead. hello, everyone, im kate bolduan. >> im john berman. the breaking news this morning, stock market plunging. the dow is down 450 points as we speak. the reasons include fears over economic slowdowns and unrest in the middle east. >> the selloff started in china. looks like it has made i...

A more informal way how they think their companies are doing, and then depending on their answers aing a ra gaited, and that gives us the numbers. this is the last eight months that manufacturing was dropping in china. that according to some of the analysts we spoke to has spooked investors on this first day of the new year. >> and matt, you explained how the new market suspension rules work, but tell us why the decision was made to put them in place for the start of the new year. >> reporter: w...

Of our breaths way. >> you know, the balloon could burn, it could catch on fire. the tanks could explode and kill people. >> but circuit breakers automatically cut the power from the line temporarily. >> so, im thinking, my god, what are they going to do? you know, its -- i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high-tension wires. then suddenly, the power surges on again. >> oh, jesus. >> oh, god! >> oh, je...

Close we all were for somebody to possibly die or get hurt very badly. >> fearing another explosion he races downstairs to shut off the circuit breakers. the pickup truck driver and passenger flee and its not until weeks later that he discovers why the driver lost control of his vehicle. >> apparently these two gentlemen were coal miners they had been working the midnight shift and they were tired and they just literally fell asleep and they both had a pretty rude awakening. >> its not an uncomm...

>> all of a sudden, theres this flash. i mean, flash, and it took all of our breaths way. >> you know, the balloon could burn, it could catch on fire. the tanks could explode and kill people. >> but circuit breakers automatically cut the power from the line temporarily. >> so, im thinking, my god, what are they going to do? you know, its -- i cant see how theyre going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high-tension wires. then su...

Jeb, im just fine. i would rather be in second place with all the news stories being about, you know, donald trump than being in first place and having them dig into every business dealing i have ever done in my life. >> we have to get to the markets. another huge story happening over the past 24 hours. there are a third day of losses as wall street remains on edge this morning after historic drop yesterday. the shanghai composite index plunged to reach the lowest point in eight months. there ar...

Its doing better than elsewhere. its a financial issue. it reflects we have overrelied on central banks and central banks cannot deliver genuine growth. they can buy time for politicians, but they cannot deliver genuine growth. this is right now a financial issue. it becomes a real economy issue if the circuit breakers are not triggered. >> richard quest, question for mohammed. >> good morning, mohammed. richard quest here. sir, you talk about the wider issues at the moment for emerging markets,...