[Infowarrior] - CBOT electronic trading down

[Richard Forno]

CBOT electronic trading down

Dow Jones News Service
    11:19 AM CDT, August 23, 2007

The Chicago Board of Trade said Thursday its e-CBOT electronic markets are
down due to technical issues.

The exchange made the announcement via its trading floor public address
system. It is expected to restart, with staggered reopenings, at 11:30 a.m.
Central Time, the exchange said.

All markets entered pre-open at 11 a.m. The financial opening will begin at
11:30 a.m., followed by equities and metals at 11:35 p.m. and agriculturals
at 11:37 p.m.

During the outage, CBOT open auction remained open. Officials at the CBOT
haven't made an official comment on the nature of the technical issues.

Traders who use the e-cbot system said they first noticed problems in
placing orders for the December corn right after the electronic and pit
trade opened at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, but quickly the technical problems
plagued the entire system.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-070823-cbot,0,5072463.story