On August 2, 1994, a squirrel chewed through a power line in Trumbull, Connecticut, and froze the Nasdaq for 34 minutes, the second blackout a squirrel had handed the exchange in seven years, because every trade in America's electronic market ran through one building on one suburban feeder

On August 2, 1994, a squirrel chewed through a power line in Trumbull, Connecticut, and froze the Nasdaq for 34 minutes, the second blackout a squirrel had handed the exchange in seven years, because every trade in America's electronic market ran through one building on one suburban feeder

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