NYSE to expand floor trading to all U.S. equity securities

NYSE, which announced the change on Wednesday, restricts floor trading to the 3,166 stocks listed on the Big Board. The action will raise the number of securities that can be traded through a floor broker to 8,600 and includes stocks and ETFs from all-electronic markets Nasdaq Inc , Bats Global Markets and NYSE Arca. The floor trading model used by NYSE, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc , gives multiple investors access to trade at the same price, regardless of when their orders were plac