Wall Street Journal Homepage WSJ.com Is Down As NYSE Stops Trading From Computer Glitch

Wall Street Journal Homepage WSJ.com Is Down As NYSE Stops Trading From Computer Glitch

The Wall Street Journal's online homepage showed a 504 image for a short time on July 8, 2015. WSJ Screenshot


This story has been updated.


The Wall Street Journal's website homepage was not accessible Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the New York Stock Exchange had to shut down due to a computer glitch. The WSJ.com displayed a 504 error, which means the server was acting too slow to process HTTP requests and therefore be visible by users. 


The error appeared on the desktop version of the site, tested in Google Chrome and Safari. The website's homepage still functioned on mobile browsers. On desktop, individual pages of the Wall Street Journal were accessible.

UPDATE, 12:30 p.m. EDT: A modified version of the homepage went online shortly after the glitch. The site now reads, "WSJ.com is having technical difficulties. The full site will return shortly." We reached out to Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal's parent company, for comment on the glitch, and are waiting to hear back.

The homepage to WSJ.com became available later Wednesday afternoon in a modified format.  WSJ.com Screenshot

UPDATE, 12:50 p.m. EDT: The Wall Street Journal's homepage is back up in full form after Wednesday's outage. Dow Jones has yet to issue comment.

WSJ.com homepage was back online as of 12:40 p.m. EDT on July 8, 2015 after experiencing about technical difficulties.  WSJ.com Screenshot

Wednesday hasn't been a good day for technology. Earlier Wednesday morning, a technical glitch with United Airlines delayed all flights. The NYSE also had to halt trading at 11:30 a.m. EDT. "NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols. Additional information will follow as soon as possible," NYSE said in a statement,
NBC News reported. 

Reporters at other media outlets made sure to note that their websites were operational amid the temporary NYSE shutdown.



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Seems to work for me.

It was down for 20 minutes, no biggie, it may have been simply overwhelmed by people looking for news on the NYSE issues. Greece and China are IMO more of a concern. Greek banks are closed as the country flirts with insolvency, while the Chinese stock exchange teeters on the edge of a full blown crash while the central government frantically tries to stabilize it. Either one or both could have significant impact world wide.

KEVIN IT WAS NOT DOWN FOR 20 minutes  as you quote ! TRY 3 AND A HALF HOURS >PLEASE GET THE ACCURATE INFORMATION OUT THERE!
:panda :
NYSE resumes floor trading after more than 3-hour halt


Trading resumed on the New York Stock Exchange floor around 3:10 p.m. ET Wednesday after a technical issue caused a more than three and a half hour halt.


Trading stopped around 11:30 a.m. ET due to what the exchange called an "internal technical issue." The NYSE said it did not suspect a cyberattack.

"I can't say with precision exactly what drove it," NYSE President Thomas Farley told CNBC. "We found what was wrong and we fixed what was wrong and we have no evidence whatsoever to suspect that it was external."

"There is no indication that there are malicious actors involved," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, adding that the White House is monitoring the situation.

The issues did not affect the electronic NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex/Arca Options. The Nasdaq reported no technical problems, saying it continued to trade NYSE-listed stocks during the halt.



By about 3:15 p.m. ET, the NYSE said "all systems are functioning normally" except the Openbook data feed for the NYSE MKT primary markets. Volume was light after floor trading restarted and closing auctions continued as normal.

The NYSE said all open orders before the halt, including market on close, limit on close and closing offset, were canceled.

"Do we need to change our protocols? Absolutely. This can't happen again. We can't put ourselves in this position again. Exactly what those changes are, I'm not yet prepared to say," Farley said. 




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A screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows when there was a halt in trading in New York, July 8, 2015.

Just after 8 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, the NYSE put out an alert about "a reported issue with a gateway connection" affecting certain symbols. It issued a notice at 10:37 a.m. ET that the problem was resolved.

"We opened the market as usual. All the NYSE-listed stocks opened without incident. Around mid-morning, we started to see some concerns about the way trading was occurring. Customers weren't getting all of the messages back that you otherwise expect," Farley said.

NYSE floor trading volume was 444 million on Wednesday, about half of the 30-day average of 861 million. Still, trading on the NYSE floor makes up only about a quarter of consolidated tape volume, or trading of all NYSE securities on all platforms, based on a recent 30-day average.

"This will not cause a move in any particular direction, so I would kind of wait it out and see what happens," said Art Cashin, UBS director of floor operations at the NYSE, in a CNBC interview.


Retail investors were largely unaffected by the outage, said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.

"This is going to make it more difficult to say the floor traders are important when there's a technical problem. Because the technical problems take out the floor traders, too," said Richard Repetto, an analyst with Sandler O'Neill & Partners.

Officials widely denied any link to a cyberattack.

The FBI said in a statement it would "monitor the situation" but "no further law enforcement action is needed at this time." Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White in a statement said "we are in contact with the NYSE and are closely monitoring the situation."

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson noted the glitch that caused the trading halt and an earlier computer problem that grounded United Airlines flights appeared unrelated.


On Tuesday, hacker group Anonymous tweeted a suspicious statement about potential problems on Wall Street. 



Separately on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal website experienced an apparent outage that was resolved by roughly 1 p.m. ET.

Shares of cybersecurity companies moved broadly higher after Wednesday's events. Stocks including Imperva, AVG Technologies and Palo Alto Networks climbed higher amid security concerns.



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let me ask you winalot where you there ? Winalot do you trade on the NEWYORK stock Exchange ? Well this what is being reported and if you stand to differ show me proof!

GypZ wrote:KEVIN IT WAS NOT DOWN FOR 20 minutes  as you quote ! TRY 3 AND A HALF HOURS >PLEASE GET THE ACCURATE INFORMATION OUT THERE!

This thread was about the WSJ page being down, and contextually, my response was to that only. The WSJ page was, according to their own reports as well as others only down for approximately 20 minutes. The most likely explanation, given the circumstances is that, as I said, the website was overloaded with traders and other interested parties trying to find out what was happening. There are other possibilities, such as a DOS attack, but absent evidence to the contrary I'll stick with my initial prognostication.

As to trading, everything seems to be OK today, so perhaps the simple explanation is the correct one. They had some sort of system crash that took their IT people a while to identify, correct and verify the repairs.