A human error at CyrusOne’s data center caused CME’s trading systems to overheat and shut down for over 10 hours.

CME halted all futures and options trading on November 28, 2025 after a cooling failure at the CyrusOne CHI1 data center shut ...

CME’s Globex trading outage hits US markets ahead of Thanksgiving, disrupting futures, treasuries and commodities, raising ...

Competition between the dominant futures exchange and the major securities exchanges is driven by two new factors -- the death of LIBOR and the competitive insignificance of trade matching. The death ...

The malfunction was caused by cooling system problems at a data center in the Chicago area, according to facility operator CyrusOne. The halt is already longer than a similar, hours-long outage due to ...

Trading of futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was halted by a data-center fault, causing hours of ...

A Tabb Group report finds that nearly 90 percent of all US buy-side firms are expected to route their futures trades through electronic channels in 2012. Electronic trading technology provider ...

A major data center outage halted futures and options trading early Friday, leaving investors in the dark for more than 10 ...

Futures markets have a safer and more efficient margining system and clearing mechanism compared to securities markets. This could attract investors and high-frequency traders to the futures exchanges ...

The comeback of so-called voice trading — which had been falling as a share of overall Treasury trading for decades — ...

Trading in the futures market requires expertise and a significant tolerance for risk. A loss mirrors every gain and although profitability is achievable, consistent success depends on using effective ...

Some people may think this story is coming late, but not from where we stand. In the first years after I started on the trading floor in 1978, most of the computers we used were just for doing recaps ...