Petition FTSE Volatility Timeout

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Stock Exchanges to temporarily close, when as now the markets are daily dropping many percentages. Trigger a shutdown should the stock exchange lose by a specified amount in 36 hours, e.g. 6%.

In this period, or directly after, the public are to be allowed to close their "share ISA's" before the markets drop further.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 15 August 2012
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