納斯達克硬件故障導致交易受阻
Nasdaq suffered a hardware breakdown on Thursday which caused its flagship US equities exchange to fail to properly rout trades with some investment firms.
美國納斯達克(Nasdaq)交易所週四遭遇一起硬件故障，導致一些投資公司的交易未得到有效處理。The company said it had resolved an issue with “stuck orders”, or those buy or sell orders that fail to make their way through the exchange’s infrastructure due to a technical problem.
納斯達克稱，技術故障使得一些買入或賣出訂單沒能通過交易所設備得到執行，成爲“停滯訂單”。它表示目前問題已解決。
A person familiar with the matter, which affected the exchange from 14:01:06 to 14:03:24, blamed the hardware issue for the failure. The outage impacted a “small subset of orders”, Nasdaq said in statement.
這次故障發生在14點1分6秒到14點3分24秒之間。一位知情人士稱，是交易所硬件出了問題。納斯達克在一份聲明中表示，該故障隻影響了“一小部分訂單”。
After identifying the problem, the exchange said new orders were “not impacted and trading has been continuous”.
納斯達克表示，在確認問題後，新的訂單“沒有受到影響，交易已繼續進行”。Stuck orders occur from time to time. In this instance, a person familiar with the situation said the problem involved roughly 5 per cent of the gateways where traders connect to Nasdaq’s data centre in Carteret, New Jersey, to match and process US orders.
“停滯訂單”現象時有發生。一位知情人士表示，此次故障大約影響到納斯達克卡特萊特(Carteret)數據中心的5%的網關。這個數據中心位於新澤西州，負責匹配和處理來自美國的訂單。Typically the exchange maintains a brokerage account that it uses to help orders get through the system in the event of problems. It is unclear if that was employed in this case.
通常，交易所會設立一個經紀戶頭，用來在系統出現問題時幫助處理訂單。目前還不清楚這次事故中是否啓用了這一機制。The failure is the latest in a string of technological issues for Nasdaq, which suffered an unprecedented three-hour halt in August last year that saw trading suspended in some of the most well known and closely held US-listed companies.
這次故障是納斯達克出現的一系列技術問題中的最新一起。去年8月，納斯達克曾史無前例地遭遇持續3小時的停機，曾導致部分最知名、持股最爲集中的美國上市公司暫停交易。
