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Sources told Bloomberg a staffer at the exchange's data center in Chicago failed to properly shut down its disaster recovery system, causing brief chaos.
A human error at a New York Stock Exchange data center in Chicago, wherein backup systems were left running, caused the exchange's computers to treat Tuesday's opening bell as a continuation of the previous day's trades.
Market professionals and day traders are rattled and waiting for the exchange to elaborate on what it publicly called a "manual error" involving its "disaster recovery configuration."