1. Analysts were thrown off balance by the unexpected trading halt. 2. A trading halt on QNI shares will be lifted tomorrow. 3. Advocates say that trading halts have worked at the New York Stock Exchange and that they would stem the sharpest price moves of Internet-related stocks. 4. But the process was never completed, because of the trading halt. 5. But the trading halt presents a potential problem to those funds, which must price their portfolios every day. 6. Companies controlled by DRB and Yahaya, including Proton, requested a trading halt prior to the commencement of trade on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. 7. Critics of trading halts say these triggers could interfere needlessly with the market. 8. Current rules let stocks fall without limit after two trading halts. 9. Grasso said NYSE officials plan to talk to securities firms and exchange specialists to gauge the effectiveness of the trading halts. 10. In one case, a trader called the NASD regulators to report that he had traded a stock during a trading halt, and to ask what to do. |