Thursday May 15, 07:51 PM
Trading at ICE temporarily halted by power shutdown
CHICAGO (AP) - Trading on Intercontinental Exchange markets was halted for several hours Thursday when the securities exchange shut down its system due to what it called a power issue.
Power was out for nearly an hour following the
emergency shutdown at ICE's primary data center in Chicago at mid-morning, spokeswoman Kelly Loeffler said from the exchange's Atlanta headquarters. It took over two more hours before futures markets were up and running again at 2 p.m. EDT.
The outage caused all orders to be suspended.
Loeffler did not provide further details about the cause. The exchange kept customers informed with brief updates on its Web site.
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