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News about stock market

• Wall Street to install 'circuit breaker' to head off market gyrations

  Stock swings of more than 10% in five minutes would trigger trading pause

• Sharp stock market drop likely human, computer error

  Trader attempting to short-sell 16 million shares of S&P 500 stock entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million, sources said

• Financial sites struggle after market crash

  Some sites had trouble handling the volume of visitors looking for information or hoping to make trades