A technical glitch on the New York Inventory Trade shortly after the market open on Monday quickly confirmed incorrect inventory costs or volatility halts on a number of shares, most notably a 99.9% drop within the worth of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) A-shares.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) B-shares, which commerce at 1/1,five hundredth the value of the A-shares, had been down as a lot as 1.1% on Monday and appeared largely unaffected by the error, although volatility was pronounced in each points as A-shares reopened for buying and selling close to 11:35 a.m. ET.

A NYSE spokesperson later mentioned “a technical subject involving industry-wide worth bands printed by the Consolidated Tape Affiliation’s Securities Info Processor triggered “limit-up/restrict down” buying and selling halts on as much as 40 symbols listed on NYSE Group exchanges.

Value bands on securities stop outsized volatility or excessive actions. The spokesperson mentioned shortly earlier than midday, the problem was resolved and buying and selling within the impacted shares resumed.

Chipotle (CMG) inventory was quickly halted for volatility about 14 minutes after the market opened, though the inventory was down only one.2%.

Different shares which had been impacted embody Abbot Laboratories (ABT), Barrick Gold (GOLD), GameStop (GME), AMC (AMC), and Financial institution of Montreal (BMO).

Monday’s technical glitch comes days after the disappearance of dwell calculations for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Common (^DJI) for about an hour.

A couple of week in the past, the NYSE started settling shares in a single enterprise day to adjust to a brand new rule from the Securities and Trade Fee, with the time between a commerce and settlement decreased from two days to sooner or later.

Ines Ferre is a senior enterprise reporter for Yahoo Finance. Observe her on X at @ines_ferre.