NYSE to Shut Trading Floors Monday After Two Are Infected
- Equity and options exchanges to move to all-electronic trading
- NYSE employee and worker on floor tested positive on Monday
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The New York Stock Exchange will temporarily shut its trading floors starting Monday and move to fully electronic trading after an employee and a person who worked on the floor both tested positive for coronavirus this week.
The exchange’s equities and options trading floors in New York will close, as will its options trading pit in San Francisco, according to a statement by NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc.