 "A circuit breaker is a measure to stem the steep fall or a sharp rise in the price of a security / stock or the index as a whole.")
Delta Corp shares surged 17.4 per cent to Rs 115.5 on the BSE on Friday, supported by heavy volume, after the BSE increased its circuit limit from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. At 11:05 am, the stock was trading at Rs 110 apiece on the BSE, as against 80 points, or 0.21 per cent, slide in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex.
A combined 11.77 million shares had changed hands on the NSE and BSE till the time of writing of this report. Of this, volumes on BSE were 0.5 million, which was nearly double the volume seen on the
