nothing to do with what you and i are doing. >> and uncertainty is the worst thing for the market. this is certainly a technical glitch to halt trading. >> i'll draw a comparison between what happens here and what happens in china. if you think volumes are bad here, in china, the market turns over once a month. it's just amazing the amount of speculative trading that goes on in those markets. >> absolutely. let's get back to alison real quick. a final note for you, alison, what's going on? >> i want to confirm that the new york stock exchange is telling us this is a technical issue on the floor. no one is certain what happened here. the new york stock exchange has been experiencing system problems this morning. this is not a flash crash, this is a technical issue. once again, the irony of this is that the technology that the new york stock exchange prides itself upon, it's what it pitches out in markets when it tries to get ipos to come here as opposed to nasdaq which has had its own huge glitches with