Amazon, Google & Booking Holdings
The New York Stock Exchange has suspended trading for the rest of the trading session in Amazon, Booking Holdings and Alphabet on its stock exchange due to a "price scale code issue," according to the exchange's website.
Reuters was first to report on the NYSE trading suspension.
All three companies are Nasdaq-listed companies and trade on other exchanges. Trading volume appeared normal for the names.
DDoS possibly related?
Just updated:
Earlier in the morning, NYSE posted a status update calling out an issue with the prices:
11:16am "NYSE customers using Binary CCG order entry ports are advised that execution reports priced at or above $1000 in some Tapes B and C securities (including AMZN, BKNG, GOOG, GOOGL) are being published with a 'price scale' code of 5. NYSE expects this behavior to continue for trading today and will provide a further update before the start of trading tomorrow.
All other systems, including the price scale code for Tapes B and C market data, are operating normally. "
"To me it sounds extremely minor and not a big deal but definitely part of the [Nasdaq symbol migration] rollout," said Joe Saluzzi, partner and co-founder at Themis Trading.
In terms of average volume, Alphabet's GOOGL ticker trades less than 3 percent of its total volume on NYSE Arca and less than 0.2 percent on NYSE Amex.
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