Trading in other major markets, such as the Nasdaq, had not been interrupted, however, so securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange continued to be traded.
This is the longest outage of its kind for the New York Stock Exchange.
Stock markets in the United States ended lower. The most watched indices fell by more than 1%. The Dow Jones lost 1.46%; the Nasdaq, 1.75% and the S&P, 1.65%. The Canadian dollar closed at 78.49 ¢ US, down 0.18 ¢ US. The greenback ended the day at CA $ 1.2740, up CA 0.28 ¢.
Investors are particularly concerned about the unstable financial market situation in Asia and the Greek debt crisis. The markets had already started falling this morning.
No act of piracy
The New York Stock Exchange has still not disclosed the nature of the technical issues cited to explain the outage.
The Secretary of the US Department of Security, Jeh Johnson, however claimed that this problem is not the result of a malicious attack or an act of hacking. “We are continuing to investigate,” he added.
The technical glitches at the New York Stock Exchange came hours after air carrier United Airlines had to ground its planes for 1.5 hours due to problems with its computer network. Jeh Johnson also indicated that the United Airlines problems were not of malicious origin.
The website of Wall Street Journal was also inaccessible part of the afternoon on Wednesday. James Comey, the director of the FBI, said the three incidents do not appear to be connected. He specifies that the Wall Street Journal rather seems to have been the victim of an influx of people wanting to know what was going on with the New York Stock Exchange.
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