Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 8, 2015 @06:01AM from the skynet-has-become-selfaware dept.

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.

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Re:WSJ by freeze128 · 2015-07-08 06:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

Are you sure it just wasn't unintentionally DDOSed by millions of day-traders wondering what happened to the NYSE?
Re:Just the beginning by Perl-Pusher · 2015-07-08 07:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

Or they get fixed fast, you go to work only to find out your getting replaced by a foreigner , the jobs market will continue to suck but the numbers will be manipulated and the economy will tank just prior to the 2016 election or just after depending on who's turn it it is to flip the switch.