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Stock trading app Robinhood experienced its third outage in a week as US stocks plummeted on Monday. (The fall was so bad that the stock exchange actually stopped trading for 15 minutes, which is automatically done during significant stock market drops to prevent free fall.) The issues lasted for more than five hours.

Robinhood first tweeted that trading was down at 10:06AM ET, tweeted again at 10:32AM ET to say trading “has been partially restored,” and confirmed that trading was restored at 3:34PM ET.

Robinhood co-founders and co-CEOs Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev…

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