CME Restarts Gas and Metals Futures After Glitch Halts Trading

Trading in US natural gas futures halted for over 30 minutes on Wednesday, marking the second major disruption in a month for this critical commodity market. Metals contracts were simultaneously affected, expanding the technical outage’s impact across multiple high-volume trading sectors on the CME Globex platform. The incident follows a January disruption, raising concerns about systemic vulnerabilities in electronic trading infrastructure for essential energy and metals markets. No immediate cause was disclosed, but the recurrence suggests potential flaws in redundancy protocols or cybersecurity measures for real-time commodity trading systems. Markets resumed operations after the glitch, though traders face growing uncertainty about platform reliability amid repeated technical failures.