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Jowi Morales

Data center cooling issue halts world's largest derivatives exchange — CME trading shutdown ripples across Malaysia, UK, and EU markets

CME group.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, had to pause trading activities across the globe because of a cooling issue at one of the data centers that serve it. According to CNBC, CME is the largest derivatives exchange operator in the world, so this disruption has been felt in cities as far away as London and Kuala Lumpur. This exchange lets you trade almost everything on the market, including agriculture, energy, equity indices like S&P 500 and Nikkei 225, foreign exchange, interest rates, metals, crypto, and more.

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