CME Group Halts Trading, Cites Cooling System Failure at Data Centres

CME Group has halted trading across its Globex platform, affecting a wide range of contracts tied to stocks and crypto. The temporary suspension is due to “a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centres,” a statement on its website read. “Support is working to resolve the issue in the near term and will advise clients of Pre-Open details as soon as they are available,” the CME team wrote. CyrusOne operates over 55 data centres across the US, Europe and Japan, Reuters noted. The outage has impacted all futures ...