How informed representatives of the NYSE shortly after the resumption of trading, the earlier problems have been resolved and all systems again began to operate flawlessly.
US Department of Homeland Security has announced that the cause of the crash was not a cyber attack.
computer system failure on Wednesday touched not only the NYSE. Problems on “network connections” caused the grounding of aircraft United Airlines around the world – said on Wednesday the carrier said in a statement. The problem was resolved within about two hours. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the information about the problems of the carrier.
In addition, more or less at the same time there was a failure on the website of the newspaper “Wall Street Journal”.
The head of the US Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson He said that the problems NYSE and United Airlines are probably not the result of “enemy attack”. “I spoke personally with the Executive Director of United Airlines Jeff Smiskiem. From what I so far have managed to find out that failures on the NYSE, and United Airlines were not the result of any hostile action” – said Johnson.
“At the moment we know little about what is happening in the Wall Street Journal, except that the system (computer) was run “- he added. It is also still unclear whether the problems NYSE, “WSJ” and the airline were in some way related.
NYSE is the second largest world stock market turnover, dethroned in 1996. by the stock exchange NASDAQ. The stock market is 1,867 listed companies, including General Electric Co., General Motors Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. The average daily trading volume of about 1.46 billion assets worth 46.1 billion USD. Stock market capitalization is 16.61 billion dollars.
At the close of trading Wednesday the Dow Jones Industrial fell by 1, 47 per cent., to 17515.42 points. S & amp; P 500 lost 1.66 percent. and amounted to 2,046.69 points. Nasdaq Comp. It fell by 1.75 per cent. and amounted to 4,909.76 points.
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