Massive trading halt shocks global markets as cooling failure at CME data center freezes billions in active transactions worldwide
Cooling failure at CME data center halted most electronic trading systems worldwide BrokerTec US Actives and BrokerTec EU reopened quickly; others stayed offline Temporary chillers were deployed to maintain minimal operations during the outage response The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest derivatives exchange in the world, was forced to pause trading across multiple markets […]