Employees were evacuated as the Philadelphia Fire Department tried to determine the cause of the smoke.
Trading was halted at 11:05 a.m. Tuesday and all smoke had been cleared from the floor by 12:05 p.m., and trading resumed about 35 minutes later, NASDAQ OMX said in a statement.
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