The malfunction is already longer than a similar, hours-long outage due to a technical error back in 2019 and underscores the reach of CME Group and its Globex electronic trading platform. It triggered widespread frustration as market participants contemplated the prospect of a lost trading session.

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.

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This article will be updated throughout the day, so check back often for more daily updates. Futures trading was suspended on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday morning after the exchange said “a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers” in Chicago forced a halt to trading.

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Stock futures pointed slightly higher before a tech outage halted trading on Black Friday, with major indexes poised to record their best week since June. Stock and bond markets will close early today.