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Halt in trading on a wild Wall Street day

The coronavirus pandemic is closing not just markets, but now borders, including the world’s largest land border, and amid the drop in travel, the aviation industry is asking the federal government for a bailout. Markets are back in freefall, despite proposed stimulus measures as the circuit breaker was again triggered causing a 15-minute halt in trading. The Trump administration is now discussing a plan of as much as $1.2 trillion in spending, but market reaction has not been favorable. And as the world’s population continues to follow the overwhelming amount of news regarding the coronavirus pandemic, some of the latest announcements in tech aren’t receiving a lot of attention.

Halt in trading on a wild Wall Street day
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