NEW YORK – The New York Stock Exchange briefly halted trading Monday morning as stocks plummeted amid Coronavirus fears and crashing oil prices.
After a more than seven percent drop in the S&P 500 index, a series of “circuit breakers” automatically kicked in for 15 minutes to try and calm the market.
Stocks resumed trading at 9:49 a.m. eastern. Here are Monday’s opening numbers:
Dow
25,864.78
-256.50
-0.98%
Nasdaq
8,575.62
-162.98
-1.87%
S&P
2,972.37
-51.57
-1.71%
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