For most of the affected stocks, trading was halted 15 seconds after markets opened and resumed between five and 15 minutes later.
A technical glitch at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday briefly caused wild price swings and a temporary trading freeze in stocks of major companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp., McDonalds Corp. and Walmart Inc.
Hundreds of stocks experienced erroneous prices as a result of the incident, the biggest snafu to hit a U.S. stock exchange in several years, according to a spreadsheet of affected securities released by the NYSE.