A flood of erroneous trades have hit US equity options markets at the start of tradings when Goldman Sachs Group sent orders accidentally because of a technical error.

The options exchanges impacted included platforms run by CBOE Holdings, Nasdaq OMX Group and NYSE Euronext.

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The option marts reviewed the trades, sent in during the first quarter-hour of trading and affecting options on shares with listing symbols beginning with the letters H through L Goldman said in a statement that the firm does not face material loss or risk from the issue.

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