A rush of unusually high volume ripped through a handful of stocks in early trading on Wednesday, disrupting normal activity and causing a halt in trading in a handful of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks. Heavy computer-based trading caused several different unrelated shares to be halted, diverting trader attention from the day's economic releases. The broader market was nonetheless little changed as this quickly became the day's focus. "I think that has disrupted all the normal activities — stocks are moving all over the place, they are weird, they are trading like millions of shares, 100 shares at a time, so ... (full story)