U.S. inventory futures buying and selling down on Black Friday after CME halt because of data-center cooling problem

A shortened day of trading for U.S. markets was off to a rough start on Friday after exchange operator CME Group was forced to halt futures trading for several markets.

“Support is working to resolve the issue in the near term and will advise clients of pre-open details as soon as they are available,” CME

CME said in a statement on its website.