NASDAQ Issues Statement on SIP: Confirms Issue Resolved, Said Did Not Affect Trading

NASDAQ OMX issued the following statement: Today between 11.35 and 11.41 a.m. the Securities Information Processor (SIP) experienced a brief outage in one of the quote dissemination channels, specifically in symbols through PC through SPZ. The issue has been resolved and UTP SIP is reviewing the incident.  All quotes are currently disseminating normally. Trading has not been affected.  The UTP SIP experienced hardware failure at 11.35 am ET this morning. The system successfully failed over and is operating normally. The issue has been resolved and UTP SIP is reviewing the incident. All quotes are currently disseminating normally. Trading has not been affected.