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CME Group suffers hours-long outage

A data centre cooling system problem halted futures and options trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for several hours.

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Editorial

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The issue, which lasted for around 10 hours, disrupted trading in markets across Asia and Europe, with participants unable to trade contracts tracking the S&P 500 Index and other assets.

Trading in stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies was affected before the issue was fixed at around 13:00 GMT.

The cooling system malfunction happened at a data centre operated by CyrusOne in the Chicago area.