The glitch, an embarrassing set-back for America's second largest stock exchange, occurred shorty after noon.
Home to some of Europe's largest banks and its second largest stock exchange, France is a key player in the continent's financial markets.
The spokesman said: "France has the fifth largest stock of Foreign Direct Investment in the world, for a total of 1,100 billion euros (approximately $1,500 billion) so obviously many foreign businesses do not seem to share Mr Street's view.
The second largest stock exchange in Brazil is the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange (BVRJ) which trades in government bonds and currencies.
China, the world's third largest economy and second largest stock market, its market value having re-overtaken Japan in that regard just last month, is growing again.
The former British territory is home to the world's seventh largest stock market and is also the gateway to China's fast-developing financial markets.
Furthermore, the Toronto Stock Exchange is the seventh largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, listing over 1,500 companies with a combined market capitalization of over US$2 trillion as of 2015.
Lower Manhattan is home to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ, at 165 Broadway, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured both by overall share trading value and by total market capitalization of their listed companies in 2013.
Euronext, Europe's second- largest stock exchange, which groups the French, Dutch and Belgian bourses, said it had agreed to a joint venture with the American Stock Exchange to cross-list index funds.
And they are the third largest marketplace for stock trading today in the United States.
2007 was another big year for Google with the company growing to become America's fifth largest listed stock (by market cap) whilst continuing its march towards world domination.
