NYSE Resumes Trading After More than Three-Hour Halt

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White said the agency is keeping close tabs on the developments at the NYSE.

Fox Business, --July 8, 2015

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The New York Stock Exchange resumed trading shortly after 3:10 p.m. ET Wednesday after a more than three-hour long outage that caused all trades to be re-routed to other exchanges.
The exchange stopped trading on all shares at 11:32 a.m. ET due to “technical glitches.” NYSE denied that problem was in any way related to a security breach of its computer systems, and tweeted the issues were caused by internal hiccups. Shortly after the halt, Nasdaq declared "self help" against the exchange, meaning it will route trades away from the NYSE and to other exchanges like the Nasdaq and BATS. Meanwhile, NYSE said its all-electronic ARCA and options markets remain open, and unaffected by the issue. More...

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