What Happened With NYSE's ETF Quotes?

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Tuesday's market open was meet with with technical problems coming from ICE controlled NYSE Arca's Pacific Exchange. S&P Sector ETFs were all halted and worry began to circulate on trading desks regarding what had happened. NYSE confirmed that the error wasn't from a rogue algorithm, a market maker going haywire, or from a message overload. Details have been varied but here's what we know as of the noon hour on Tuesday: Apple experienced a quote outage from Nasdaq between 09:31:03 and 09:37:49 S&P ETFs were halted and resumed on three occasions with the Pacific Exchange being cited as the problem source. The Barclays iPath ETN
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experienced varied quote updates and the problems subsided as of this writing Level 1 quotes appear to be back in order Level 2 quoting and down in order books are working It is rather unique that this problem occurred on the final trading day of the quarter. Traders were speculating whether someone was testing a new system or there was heavy selling ahead of the quarter end. Either way, the systems appear to be back to normal and the Street is awaiting a more thorough comment from NYSE As a public company The New York Stock Exchange
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is required to disclose what happened, more so for their investor than anyone else. NYSE did issue a memo saying all systems are normal and quoting appears, from sources Benzinga spoke with, that to have returned to normal operations. NYSE will issue a post-mortem explaining what happened.
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