CME, Futures and Treasuries
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A cooling failure at CME Group’s primary Aurora data center halted futures trading worldwide, raising questions about safeguards and private-equity ownership.
CME Group, the world’s largest exchange operator, suffered an extended outage on Friday that froze activity across its currency platform and futures tied to
CME Group, the exchange operator, said in a post on X today, Nov. 28, that its BrokerTec markets in Europe and the US are open and trading, noting tha
A shortened Black Friday session was getting underway, though without futures indications for major U.S. indexes due to a glitch at CME. Futures and options trading has been down for several hours due to "a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers,
Traders said the outage increased the risk of sudden moves when markets fully reopened, especially with month-end positioning underway. Ben Laidler, head of equity strategy at Bradesco BBI, told Reuters: “It’s a black eye to the CME and probably a reminder of how important market structure is and how interconnected everything is.