- NYSE CEO, Larry leibowitz: Thursday’s trades in Procter & Gamble “will get taken off the table.”
- According to Leibowitz, “If you look at the charts you can see fairly clearly where the trades came in,” he said from New York. “It’s that V-shaped drop where it came down and snapped right back up. You had some very high-cap stocks trading down 50 percent or large percentages in a split instant because there really was no liquidity in electronic markets.”
“The fact that it snapped back so quickly made it clear that it was an aberration,” Leibowitz said. “When a large order or series of orders comes into electronic markets, they don’t really have any way to recognize either that they’re a mistake or to slow them to down to attract the proper liquidity on the other side. And so the electronic markets actually traded all the way through the slower New York Stock Exchange markets where we were trying to slow down trading.”
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- Nasdaq to cancel all trades more than 60% above or below market occuring between 2:40 and 3pm.
“There were a number of erroneous trades,” said NYSE spokesman Rich Adamonis. “Our guys just told me Nasdaq is investigating the erroneous trades. What happened today in P&G for instance, the bad print was on Nasdaq, not here.”
If you can stand the yammering, watch the following video to see the insanity unfold:
