Oct 20, 2020

Could airport COVID testing open up international travel again?

Heathrow is the first U.K. airport to offer COVID-19 testing to some departing passengers. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

London's Heathrow Airport is offering travelers test results within an hour. Sudan welcomes a U.S. decision to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. What happens when a stock exchange goes down for a day?

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When stock exchanges malfunction, what keeps total chaos from taking hold?

by Victoria Craig

Oct 20, 2020

A lot of investment banks and brokers are working behind the scenes to straighten out all of the stock exchange orders.

On Monday, markets across Europe were taken completely offline after their exchange operator, Euronext, suffered a software glitch.

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