‘Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street. We can only hope’
The world saw an unusual number of suspicious economic events Wednesday – with the New York Stock Exchange coming to a grinding halt for four hours, hundreds of United Airlines flights grounded, Microsoft laying off 7,800 workers, Apple investors seeing $69 billion vanish and China suffering a financial meltdown.
The sequence of events has some speculating wildly: Are these indications of a cyber attack or even a global economy in distress?
As WND reported, the New York Stock Exchange came to a grinding halt Wednesday reportedly for a computer issue – just a couple hours after a similarly worded technical problem grounded hundreds of United Airlines flights in the nation and around the world. At the same time, the Wall Street Journal suffered technical difficulties at its site.
Upon hearing the news, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., immediately suggested the situation appeared to be a cyber attack.
He tweeted: “Three major computer malfunctions on same day give appearance of an attack, serve as reminder Congress must pass a cybersecurity bill.”
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