A major outage at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange brought futures and options trading to a standstill on Friday, disrupting activity across global equity, currency, bond, and commodity markets. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) began to restore trading on Friday after a technical issue disrupted operations on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq. The shutdown was triggered by a cooling system failure at a data centre in the Chicago area, according to the facility’s operator, CyrusOne. Engineering teams have since restarted several chillers and installed temporary cooling equipment to ... (full story)