Stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market resumed trading after a computer breakdown shook American equity markets.

Trading in Nasdaq securities resumed at around 3:25 p.m. in New York, the exchange said in a statement on its website. Nasdaq said earlier that trading in shares it lists had been stopped amid issues at its Securities Information Processor, the feed that disseminates quotes and prices.

First Published August 22, 2013, 6:16 p.m.