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Paralyzed Nasdaq Chose Caution Not Speed in Restoring Trade …

Mark Lennihan/APBy Jed Horowitz, Lauren Tara LaCapra and Herbert LashNEW YORK — Thirty minutes into the crippling outage that hobbled the Nasdaq stock market Thursday afternoon, stopping all trading in $5.9 trillion worth of U.S. equities, exchange officials had the problem fixed.It was another 2½ hours, however, before they were ready to flip the switch and turn the all-electronic […]