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<text id=89TT2955>
<title>
Nov. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Wall Street
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 84
Business Notes
WALL STREET
Taking the Pledge, Again
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<p> Program trading is the habit that Wall Street loves to kick
-- temporarily. Faced with angry investors and the threat of a
congressional crackdown, the New York Stock Exchange last week
put new limits on such computerized trading. Critics blame this
practice, in which speculators simultaneously buy and sell
blocks of securities, for recent stock-market gyrations. Among
the Big Board's reforms: a 15-minute halt in program trading
when the Dow Jones average drops 30 points, and a 30-minute
delay when the index falls 75 points.
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<p> The exchange unveiled its policy after most major Wall
Street firms had backed away from program trading. But skeptics
noted that brokerages had scrapped program trading following the
1987 crash, then resumed the lucrative practice as soon as the
market became less volatile.
</p>
</body></article>
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