New York Stock Exchange Halted Due To Technical Issues

New York Stock Exchange Halted Due To Technical Issues

The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading 11:32 a.m ET Wednesday. It’s been down for over an hour.

Via CNN Money:

In a brief announcement, the exchange said it was experiencing a “internal technical issue” and said on Twitter that it’s “not the result of a cyber breach.”

“We will be providing further updates as soon as we can, and are doing our utmost to produce a swift resolution, communicate thoroughly and transparently, and ensure a timely and orderly market re-open,” the NYSE said.

The Department of Homeland Security told CNN that there is “no sign of malicious activity” at the NYSE or with an earlier outage experienced by United Airlines. The FBI says it reached out to NYSE and “no further law enforcement action is needed at this time.”

Other exchanges, including the Nasdaq, are still operating. That means investors can still trade, just not on the NYSE.

Other glitches: The Wall Street Journal’s homepage stopped functioning around the same time that the NYSE went down. The Journal was able to restore a limited homepage by 12:18 pm ET with the message “WSJ.com is having technical difficulties. The full site will return shortly.”

United Airlines’ computer system malfunctioned Wednesday morning, but it was back up by the time NYSE had problems.

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Earlier in the day Wednesday, about 200 NYSE stock symbols halted trading due to a technology glitch, including Macy’s (M) and Kate Spade (KATE), but that seemed to have cleared. The exchange says there is more information to come.

“They’ve been having problems all day. They seemed to have rectified it earlier and then it happened again. Now they shut it all down,” said Joe Saluzzi, co-head of trading at Themis Trading and author of Broken Markets.

The NYSE trading halt brings back memories of the 2013 “Flash Freeze” on the Nasdaq. That incident caused all Nasdaq-listed shares to stop trading for more than three hours.

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