If you blinked, here’s what you missed
Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. sustained slowdowns on Web pages that provide financial information as U.S. stocks tumbled and users swarmed the Internet for market updates. Schwab Ticker:(SCHW) experienced extra traffic at its site, phone service centers and branches, particularly between about 2:50 p.m. and 3:57 p.m. New York time, when the market decline accelerated, Greg Gable, a spokesman for the San Francisco-based company, said in an e-mailed statement.
“Because of the high volume, some clients may have experienced intermittent access on schwab.com and longer wait times on the phone; but the website and phones were in operation handling millions of trades and inquiries,” Gable said. (Read full story.)