The Hong Kong stock exchange is examining introducing circuit breakers to halt share trading in the event of wild price swings, making it the latest Asian bourse to move to safeguard markets against glitches.
Singapore’s exchange is set to implement circuit breakers soon, in line with plans announced in June.
The moves underscore Asian exchanges’ efforts to catch up with their western rivals, which have added systems to prevent a repeat of the “flash crash” on Wall Street in 2010. Billions of dollars were wiped from the value of blue-chip stocks in a matter of minutes after computer-driven trading went awry.
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