NEWS ALERT – CME halts trading on Globex; open delayed - reopen target

Tom Jennemann reports for basemetals.com.  The CME Group has halted nearly all Globex electronic trading due to technical issues, the exchange said Sunday evening.

“CME Globex markets will pre-open at 20:30 Central Time and open at 21:00 Central Time.

All day and session orders, including GTD (Good Till Date) with today’s trade date will be cancelled. All GTC (Good till Cancel) orders that have been acknowledged will remain working,”

CME said in a notice. The bourse has release(d) little other information on the outage; however, it did say that all futures products, with the exception of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives, were stopped at 6:45 pm EDT.

CME Globex is one of the world’s largest electronic trading system for futures and options on futures. All Comex metals, including gold, silver and copper, as well as Nymex platinum and palladium trade on the platform.

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