Trading At New York Stock Exchange Resumes After Nearly 4 Hour Outage

Trading resumed at the New York Stock Exchange just after 3 p.m. EDT after unexpectedly stalling for nearly four hours Wednesday, due to a technical issue. After trading restarted, the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) was down 250.64 points for the day, or 1.42 percent, to 17,525.27. The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) dropped 33.08 points, or 1.57 percent, to 2,048.63.