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stanislavb
How come!?
supercoder
It was discovered no one actually really used Alexa
ourmandave
That's not true! I use it to reply to Ashley Madison fembots. (It's a vicious circle really.)
pscsbs
This appears to be a hack, or data corruption.

See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected.

Edit: It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.

munificent
> all have their prices set to 123.47

Which is what you'd get if the price was 123.456789... and rounded to two decimal places.

avaer
Plausible, but wouldn't it be 123.46?
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munificent
Ugh, apparently I can't math that early in the morning. :(
dilly_li
Can anyone share some thoughts?
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maxton
This must be an issue with Google's data provider. Their graphs still show the correct stock price.
mastax
News

Why Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Will Not Falter Anytime Soon Investorplace.com - 7 hours ago

Hilarious

gergles
Yeah, this is some sort of horrible error on some sort of aggregator, I'd guess. MSFT did not gain 79% today, but that's what Google says. Yahoo! on the other hand, says it lost 57.74%.

If you go to schwab.com and get a quote there, it shows the correct prices, so it wasn't the exchange itself.

friedman23
This is a glitch not a flash crash. There is absolutely no volume on Amazon right now. This actually happens all the time .
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narrator
I wonder what this is going to do to all the sub-second quant algorithms. Do they have the ability to recover quickly from this kind of data corruption?
comboy
Please change the title instead of flagging this. It may not be a crash but this is newsworthy.
mhannigan
I can.

US Market closed early today at 1:00PM. Market data was finalized at 5:16 PM. Data sent to third parties after 5:16PM today would have been test data - they do this every day and the third party systems receive and then purge the test data. One or more third parties took at as real data, possibly because of the odd market close time, and then re-propagated those prices to the real time systems. The reason this can happen is that certain off book transactions can be/are reported by these third parties. These reports update the stock price.