Stocks fell for the seventh straight trading day on Thursday, continuing what amounts to a slow-motion crash that has pulled the market down more than 20% over that brief period.

四股市连续第7个交易日下挫，继续朝缓慢崩盘迈进，股市在这短短的几天里下跌了逾20%。

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They could trade at home but choose not to because of China's slow Internet speeds, preferring the much faster systems available in brokerages' trading rooms.

他们也可以在家交易，但由于中国网速慢，他们不会选择在家，而是更喜欢到拥有快得多的系统的经纪公司交易室。

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This China news, if true, would be a welcome balm to soothe frayed consumer sentiment and slow the mass sell-off that has defined the past few weeks' trading.

如果这则中国新闻属实，则将是一个值得欢迎的事件，可以舒缓消费者紧绷的情绪，放缓已经定义了过去好几周的大规模抛售。

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The idea is to slow trading in a coordinated way.

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In addition to jumping on such a slow trading day, the move was also atypical of the fund's recent behavior.

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There were also closures two years ago, which were blamed on slow trading and the close location of the branches to existing Nationwide branches.

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The SEC has already proposed a number of changes designed to address their growing influence, including extra restrictions on broker-dealers that provide direct market access to high frequency traders, a trader tracking system for large traders, circuit breakers that would slow trading in individual stocks if they fall more than 10%, and new rules for off-exchange trading venues.

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