New York Stock Exchange Suspends All Trading

The New York Stock Exchange temporarily halted trading in all securities at 11:32 a.m., New York time, Wednesday morning. No explanation was immediately provided by the NYSE's parent company, Intercontinental Exchange Inc.

All open orders would be canceled, an alert on the exchange's website stated. It continued, "Additional information will follow as soon as possible."................



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A technical glitch forced the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading for more than three hours on Wednesday in the biggest outage to strike a U.S. financial market in nearly two years, unnerving investors already rattled by the meltdown in Chinese stocks and the Greek debt crisis.

The exchange, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE.N), said the halt, which occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. EDT and lasted until 3:10 p.m., was not the result of a cyberattack. Other exchanges were trading normally.

"It's not a good day, and I don't feel good for our customers who are having to deal with the fallout," NYSE President Thomas Farley told CNBC during the halt..................

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