By Joe Stonor
Trading got under way on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday after hours of disruption to key markets for U.S. stocks, Treasurys, commodities and other financial instruments that the exchange operator attributed to a cooling problem at a data-center provider.
In early U.S. trade, the dollar and yields on U.S. Treasurys were broadly steady after CME Group said trading on its foreign-exchange and fixed-income platforms had been restored. Prior to the reopening, spreads in currency pairs had been trading at unusually high levels in already thinned-out holiday trading.
Futures for U.S. indexes were up across the board at the resumption of trading, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq which rose 0.3%. Futures for the index had been up 0.2% before the CME disruption halted trading. Futures for the S&P 500 nudged up slightly to 0.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average held steady at 0.1%.
Gold futures sprung up 0.2% at $4,209.20 a troy ounce, while WTI crude oil futures rose 0.5% to $58.9 a barrel.
U.S. markets had been closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving and the outage left traders in the dark about price direction for equities, gold, WTI crude oil, and other assets ahead of Friday's holiday-shortened session.
CME, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces, blamed a cooling problem at a data center operated by CyrusOne for the trading halt. CyrusOne said its teams were working to restore normal operations as quickly as possible.
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
11-28-25 0934ET
