This Heat Wave's So Bad It's Even Slowing Down US Stock Trades
High-speed traders on the US East Coast are seeing slower trades as a result of the weather
• High humidity caused by the heatwave in the New York City area is slowing down radio transmission between three New Jersey data centers where US stocks trade
• Nasdaq sent a note to customers saying it's taking 8 microseconds longer to send information from its data center in Carteret to the NYSE data center in Mahwah, and an extra 2 microseconds to send data to the Cboe Global Markets exchange in Seacaucus, Bloomberg reported