(Adds details from Homeland Security Secretary)
WASHINGTON July 8 (Reuters) – The White House and the US Treasury Department are monitoring what is happening on the New York Stock Exchange, suspended for technical difficulties in the afternoon, and President Barack Obama has been informed, according to a member of the White House.
Even the Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said that technical problems registered by the NYSE and by United Airlines, which has had to stop for a couple of hours its flights in the afternoon, are not apparently related activities ” criminal “.
“I spoke personally with the CEO of United, Jeff Smisek. It seems from what we know at this point that the malfunction at United and the stock market are not the result of any criminal activity,” Johnson said during a speech to Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“We know less than the Wall Street Journal at this point, except for the fact that their systems are broken,” he added.
Immediately after the restoration of the activities of the airline, the US stocks has stopped due to technical problems and also the site of the Wall Street Journal reported errors.
In some tweet the Nyse says that securities continue to be treated without problems in other markets, “we decided to suspend trading on the NYSE in order to avoid problems due to the technical issue”. Furthermore, the NYSE said that “the problems that we are experiencing a technical issue concerning internal and are not the result of a breach of computer systems.”
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