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<text id=90TT1652>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Business Notes:Securities
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 49
Business Notes
SECURITIES
Stock Around The Clock
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<body>
<p> The New York Stock Exchange has not exactly stampeded toward
a longer working day. In 1952 the Big Board extended the
closing time 30 minutes, to 3:30 p.m., and in 1974 to 4 p.m.
In 1985 the exchange moved the opening bell up 30 minutes, to
9:30 a.m. But exchanges in Europe and Japan trade N.Y.S.E.
stocks when the Big Board is closed, typically handling an
amount equivalent to 9% of the exchange's daily business. Now
the Big Board is getting in gear. Last week chairman John Phelan
unveiled a plan to move the N.Y.S.E. to 24-hour trading by the
end of the decade. "There is some volume going overseas, and
we'd like to capture some of that volume back," he said. The
transition will begin later this year with 15- to 45-min.
after-hours trading sessions that will be handled by computers.
Next year the Big Board plans to have stock auctions at 8 p.m.,
midnight and 5 a.m., with each stock trading at a single price.
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