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You are here: Home / Business / Stocks Down After New York Stock Exchange Re-Opens

Stocks Down After New York Stock Exchange Re-Opens

July 8, 2015 By Ellen Smith

The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a triple digit hit today after trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was halted for three and a half hours.

At the end of trading in New York at 4 p.m., the index closed down 261 points or 1.5 percent to 17,515, while the S&P 500 fell 34 points, about 1.7 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 1.8 percent.

The New York Stock Exchange halted trading today at 11:32 a.m. ET, leaving investors unable to buy and sell securities. The New York Stock Exchange said its floor trading resumed just after 3:10 p.m. Trading for NYSE MKT, the exchange for small-cap companies, resumed at 3:05 p.m.

An “internal technical issue” had triggered a system-wide halt, exchange officials said. They said it was “not the result of a cyber breach,” according to a NYSE tweet.

PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, July 8, 2015.

Seth Wenig/AP Photo | PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, July 8, 2015. 

Boston College’s Carroll School of Management finance professor Jeffrey Pontiff told ABC News today the biggest impact was the limit of high frequency trading operations.

“It won’t affect individuals’ wealth in general,” Pontiff said. “Your wealth is still there.”

PHOTO: People sit on a bench near the New York Stock Exchange, July 8, 2015.

Seth Wenig/AP Photo | PHOTO: People sit on a bench near the New York Stock Exchange, July 8, 2015. 

Charles Jones, professor at Columbia Business School, said the good news about the NYSE glitch is that U.S. stocks trade simultaneously on several different platforms. NYSE stocks trade on more venues then just the exchange and the other platforms are an information source for prices when the NYSE is not open, Pontiff said.

“It’s not completely seamless, but it’s not too hard for market participants to adjust and continue their trading at the other venues,” Jones said.

The glitch would have been a larger issue if the outage lasted all day, Jones said. That’s because the NYSE conducts a heavily-used closing auction at 4 p.m. to determine the official closing price for NYSE-listed stocks. The absence of the auction would have caused some pain to traders if the NYSE was still halted.

(1 of 3) The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach.

— NYSE (@NYSE) July 8, 2015

(2 of 3) We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue.

— NYSE (@NYSE) July 8, 2015

(3 of 3) NYSE-listed securities continue to trade unaffected on other market centers.

— NYSE (@NYSE) July 8, 2015

Source: ABC News – Top Stories Stocks Down After New York Stock Exchange Re-Opens

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