NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. monetary market operators held nearly nine minutes of silence on Tuesday in honor of George Floyd, a 46- year-old African American who passed away on May 25 after a white policeman knelt on his neck.
The flooring of Intercontinental Exchange Inc’s NYSE went quiet for 8 minutes and 46 seconds at noon, accompanying the start of Floyd’s funeral in Houston and the amount of time the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s neck.
It was the longest moment of silence held on the NYSE flooring in its 228- year history, NYSE spokesman Farrell Krame