An investor places her leg on a bench near an electronic board displaying stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

China’s stock market lurched lower again Monday, triggering “circuit breakers” that halted trading. The slump was the latest episode in months of turmoil for Chinese investors.

China’s market benchmark soared 150 percent between November 2014 and early June 2015, as cheerleading in the state press encouraged inexperienced investors into the market. The Shanghai Composite Index hit its peak June 12 and then fell 30 percent. A panicked government slashed interest rates and bought shares to halt the slide. Beijing gradually withdrew emergency measures starting in September as prices tentatively stabilized.

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