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Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading
mitcheli writes: In short order, some major outages occurred [Wednesday] morning. First United Airlines reported a system wide grounding of all flights due to "technical difficulties" with little details to follow. Following that, the New York Stock Exchange reported "technical difficulties" while suspending all trading. While initial reports on NYSE state that there is no malicious activity as a result of the outage, few details have been released at this time. "NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols. Additional information will follow as soon as possible," the NYSE said in a statement on its status page.
If NYSE is down to "technical" reasons it's because one or more of the high-frequency-theft algorithms has lost its shit again and messed everything up.
Mark my words, this will be about protecting the clowns who are skimming off the top from their own stupidity and greed.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
please do not sell your chini stocks or fly to somewhere you still can.
Interestingly enough, trading--even of NYSE listings--seems to be continuing along just fine without the NYSE.
It's almost enough to make people start to wonder aloud whether or not they're still relevant.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
This is to protect from the rush to dump Chinese stock. There might be no honor amongst thieves, but this is a professional courtesy.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
This would be funny except Ron Paul had said:
"My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy."
See, i am not even a stalwart Ron Paul guy, but I do respect him a political philosopher. The feel of the idea seemed off to me, so I did an entire 10 sec of Google searching to check. It is easy to hate and disparage others, because you were told to. It is harder not be a lap dog and think for yourself.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Except Snowden gave the information to everyone, US and foreign.
Riddle me this: How do you give it to the American People WITHOUT also giving it to everyone else, US and foreign?
Do you REALLY think 321 million people can keep a secret?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Look at the timing more closely -- was this tweeted after the Chinese markets had already crashed? One could easily predict that today would have been bad for Wall Street regardless of any crash.