NYSE and United Airlines systems down due to 'technical issues' (and here's what might be blamed)

Trading on the NYSE has been halted..following an earlier glitch involving 200 stocks.United grounding, WSJ site down…China coincidental?

— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) July 8, 2015

United Airlines is experiencing computer problems that has left flights grounded. Along with that, trading the New York Stock Exchange has been halted due to a “technical issue.” To top it off, for a time, the Wall Street Journal’s homepage was inaccessible:

All #UnitedAirlines continental flights are grounded today http://t.co/liLBEF71fA

— U.S. News (@usnews) July 8, 2015

NYSE: 'Technical issue' pic.twitter.com/HRUDKl0MnG

— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) July 8, 2015

In case you're freaking out, the WSJ homepage also went down a few times this weekend. And our sub pages like http://t.co/HpSLYtvrTm are up.

— Jennifer Valentino-DeVries (@jenvalentino) July 8, 2015

DHS tells @jimsciutto: "no signs of malicious activity at this time" with regard to @nyse and @united situations.

— CNN NationalSecurity (@NatSecCNN) July 8, 2015

What to do? The solutions are obvious:

All NYSE floor trading HALTED. Did they try turning the stock exchange off and then turning it on again?

— Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) July 8, 2015

To NYSE and United: my broadcast engineers say turn it off and turn it back on. See if that does it.

— Mitch Carr (@mitchcarrtv) July 8, 2015

Heh.

Here’s what might end up getting the blame:

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/618813483430346752

Global warming. LOL#NYSE

— RockPrincess (@Rockprincess818) July 8, 2015

#nyse shut down, global warming I told you. #algore

— Cliff Booth Once Upon A Time in Nap (@amoney22) July 8, 2015

Take it away, Obama administration and Al Gore!

Perhaps there’s a simpler explanation for one of the problems:

https://twitter.com/Roger247/status/618780483132899328