USA: NYSE suspends trading due to technical fault

Trading was suspended at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Wednesday, following a technical glitch. The New York Stock Exchange stated on their twitter account that they were experiencing “an internal technical issue" which was "not the result of a cyber-breach”. The NYSE first started failing at 10:32 (15:32 GMT), and it completely halted at 11:32 local time (16.32 GMT), also affecting the NYSE MKT exchange, a market for small companies. These disruptions are very uncommon in US markets, since the US stock exchanges are one of the most protected systems in the world. The last disruption happened in August 2013, when trading on the NASDAQ stock market was down for hours.