Glitch forces Globex trading halt

Details remained sketchy at press time, but the problem is believed to stem from the failure of a third-party software component in the matching engine's database, which also prevented the engine from automatically switching to the backup database. All other products traded on Globex, such as equity, index and currency futures, were unaffected because the exchange maintains separate matching engines for each asset class.

Trading was suspended at 12:06pm Chicago time. The problem was fixed by 1

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