An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator, CME Group has halted trade on its popular currency platform and in futures spanning foreign exchange, commodities, Treasuries and stocks, freezing a handful of benchmarks as brokers pulled products.
The problem was a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centres, said CME in a statement, adding it was working to resolve it in the "near term" but offering no further details.
The outage at CME on Friday comes more than a decade after the operator had to shut electronic trade for some agricultural contracts in April 2014 due to technical problems, which at the time sent traders back on to the floor.
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