NASDAQ Stock Market Communications "Disrupted" Friday, Oct 15

Source: Hal Turner

Date: October 17, 2026

“Nasdaq is currently experiencing a network disruption affecting multiple multicast groups originating from Carteret. As a result, customers may intermittent experience data gaps on the following feeds . . . ”

The technical disruption is still actively ongoing as of 1:13 PM EDT.

Nasdaq issued an alert confirming a network disruption originating at its Carteret, New Jersey data facility.

Current Status & Impact:

Market Data Feeds: The primary issue is intermittent data gaps and missing market data

One user on Social Media chose to comment as follows:

Sounds suspiciously right, to me!  Nasdaq's Carteret data center just glitched — intermittent gaps across all its US equities feeds, per Reuters.

Trading kept going, but still: the one week everyone's glued to their quotes is exactly when the quotes start dropping out.

You can't make this stuff up.