EFTA Document EFTA01393146

interest, may fail or may not work effectively or effi- ciently at times. During the past few years, for exam- ple, the operations of various U.S. markets have been disrupted by earthquake. flood, fire, electricity out- ages, and computer failure. Moreover, no system can be expected to work perfectly at all times. The options markets may rely on manual methods to record trade information, and errors or omissions can occur in their reports of price, volume and other information, and these c