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Bad day for the Intercontinental Exchange

Posted on May 16, 2008

CHICAGO (Futures Magazine) -- Due to a power outage in the Chicago data center this morning, the Intercontinental Exchange has stopped all trading in all markets. The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) had to halt trading on all markets at 9:45 central today due to a power issue at the ICE Primary Data Center in Chicago. The ICE system is shut down. It just stopped. They didn t notify us or anything, says cotton trader Jurgens Bauer. With 20 seconds left, they say we are closing in 45 time. This is at 44 and 20 seconds. You can t even call customers! They say there is a pow...

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