NYSE Trading Halted; Tech Glitch Blamed

The New York Stock Exchange halted all trading midway through its Wednesday session. Exchange officials said a "technical issue" forced the suspension of trading. Before trading was stopped at 11:30 a.m. in New York, key U.S. indexes were down a bit more than 1 percent. Analysts said worries about China's slowing economic growth and stock market troubles worried some investors. The head of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, the government agency that...

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