[Infowarrior] - NYSE Euronext Trading Disrupted 2nd Day in Row

[Richard Forno]

NYSE Euronext Trading Disrupted 2nd Day in Row

June 21, 2011
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

http://www.securitiestechnologymonitor.com/news/nyse-euronext-trading-disrupted-second-day-row-28240-1.html

NYSE Euronext experienced its second interruption in trading in two days in Europe.

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Trading in the Amsterdam AE index and the Brussels Bel-20 index stopped at 7:07 a.m. Greenwich mean time Tuesday, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Trading in certain stocks and bonds in Paris also was suspended.

These disruptions followed a one-hour suspension of all trading on European markets run by NYSE Euronext. In that case, an undescribed "technical problem" caused trading to halt between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Greenwich mean time.

The trading in the Amsterdam and Brussels indcies was attributed t "some latencies in its cash market." But the exchange operator, whose namesake venue is the New York Stock Exchange, so far  has given few details on the causes of either day's interruptions.

Monday's suspension was the result of a glitch in the procedure used to open European stock and bond markets, Dow Jones reported.

That left exchange members unable to enter, change or cancel orders, employees of the exchange operator told customers in a notice.

A spokeswoman for NYSE Euronext said trading in Paris should be back to normal there by 9 a.m. Greenwich mean time.