Brokers including IG Group and Capital.com have been forced to halt trading in a swathe of instruments as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) exchange shut down this morning.
CME Group has halted trading on its currency platform and in futures across foreign exchange, commodities, Treasuries and stocks.
The glitch has also impacted the trading of gold CFDs, which are currently among the most popular such instruments, and is therefore likely to have a significant impact on broker earnings.
Brokers have pulled their trading services in the impacted instruments in response, with leading platforms IG Group and Capital.com among them.
The glitch is reportedly due to a cooling issue at data centres used by CME and operated by CyrusOne, with the exchange’s support teams working to fix the issue.
