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A major data center outage halted futures and options trading early Friday, leaving investors in the dark for more than 10 hours.

Financial market operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) is trading flat at $281.10 at last check, after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's CyrusOne branch suffered a cooling issue at a data center.

CME Group , the world's biggest exchange operator, experienced an hours-long outage on Friday that halted trade on its currency platform and in futures spanning foreign exchange, commodities, Treasuries and stocks.

CME services went down before Friday's already abridged stock market trading session due to a data center cooling issue.

An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator CME Group on Friday halted trading on its popular currency platform and in futures spanning foreign exchange, commodities, Treasuries and stocks.

Trading was interrupted by an outage on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange affecting Treasuries and equities futures, as well as commodities and other asset classes.

Trading in futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was suspended for several hours on Friday after a fault at an external data centre stopped activity across foreign exchange, bond, equity and commodity markets. The interruption, which affected contracts from crude oil to United States Treasuries and S&P 500 futures, lasted longer than a comparable outage in 2019 and highlighted ...