Eli5: Why do they halt trading for volatile stocks?

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Why not just let them drop to zero? Doesn’t this interfere with the market?

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If a stock deserves to drop to zero it will with or without trading halts. The market is better when it is stable, you have smaller bid-ask spreads and it’s cheaper to execute transactions.

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