The floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)/New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) in New York City. CME Group is the largest and most diverse derivatives exchange in the world.
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Trading was halted on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday after a cooling problem at one of its data centers.
“Due to a cooling issue at the CyrusOne data centers, our markets are currently halted,” a spokesperson for the company said. CME he said in an emailed statement early Friday.
“Support is working to resolve the issue in the near term and will notify customers of pre-opening details as soon as they become available.”
The CME trades futures and options on various asset classes, including agricultural commodities, energy, metals and stocks.
A spokesperson for CyrusOne, based in Dallas, Texas, was not immediately available for comment.
At 2:30 a.m. ET, futures prices WTI crude oil, US 10-year Treasurys and the S&P 500 were among those that had not been updated, LSEG data showed.
