Nasdaq Glitch Sets Aapl Other Shares To 123 47 In Non Existent Stock Crash

A Nasdaq glitch caused a number of major trading platforms to display AAPL’s share value as $123.47, some 14.3% below its true value at the time. The incorrect price was shown on Bloomberg, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and others.

Nasdaq told Business Insider that the problem was caused by ‘certain third parties’ incorrectly interpreting test data as a live feed. The test data originated from Nasdaq’s Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) service.

It’s unclear at this stage how the test data was propagated, but it appears that it may have happened first on Bloomberg, with other services then picking up that feed.

Automatic protections apparently kicked in, with trading in AAPL stock shown as having been halted on Bloomberg terminals, which displayed the message ‘Market wide circuit breaker halt – Level 2.’ It appears that market trading was not affected, including pre-market trading.