Hours-Long Trading Malfunction Halts World's Most Popular Markets (Bloomberg)

• Trading reopened at 9:45 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday
• Halt poses risk of hurting investor sentiment, Saxo Bank says

A technical error at CME Group Inc forced the world’s biggest exchange operator to halt trading for about three hours, preventing the buying and selling of contracts tied to U.S. Treasuries, stock-futures and commodities.

More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/futures-on-s-p-500-treasuries-oil-pause-in-cme-outage

Submitted February 27, 2019 at 08:37AM by markyu007 https://ift.tt/2Xtsk0z