Halts of trade and economy have little if anything in common if you care about my opinion.

Halt is just an attempt at fairness to all investors so that they will have some time to digest any event before trading resumes and all restart at an equal footing.

Where I agree is that Halts are used as a publicity ploy to draw attention and I would use them as needed.

In a poor economy people are just as eager to invest, perhaps more sobecause there are few good investments available and they are more desperate. Where the crunch cimes is that they are much morecareful. So thay need to be persuaded more to invest in your endeavour.

Half cent opinion.