Earlier. There are two kinds of trading halt, the kind caused by some sort of computer malfunction and the kind where government stops trading because stocks are in free fall and its the only way to break the velocity of the decline. Trust me you want to be in the trading hall caused by the computer crash and the New York Stock Exchange and not the one with the stock market crash namely the indices that trade in china, but you wouldnt know it judging by todays horrendous action. The dow tumbling 261 points and the nasdaq tumbling 1. 75 . There were not one, but there were two marvels today. The first was that the New York Stock Exchange went down and, i dont know, nothing really happened. Trading got rerouted to other exchanges and as painful as it is to say it got to the market was as bad on the other exchanges as it would have been in the New York Stock Exchange. I can remember a time when the New York Stock Exchange was the only game in town and this outage would have caused widespr
Richmond police are investigating several shootings that left a man dead and four injured including a teen. It happened in an area known as the Iron Triangle a man was shot and kill at an apartment complex and a teen wounded. Hours later three more were shot. Investigators hope to talk to witnesses to determine if they are related. His say they are not apologizing to the victims in the kidnapping they called a hoax. The 38yearold Mathew Muller has been arrested. The f. B. I. Took over and said the second man is behind the vallejo kidnapping of denise husband kins and a similar case in dublin. An f. B. I. Affidavit revealed evidence including items seized from mullers storage unit in vallejo. Janet o has more on what investigators found in the storage unit next half hour. The city of san jose and the police and fire unions have until the end of the day to negotiate a deal on pension reform and avoid going to court. The two sides have been meeting privately to settle disputes over measur