XRP CME futures hit record 9,900 contracts in October after reaching $1B milestone in August. Can institutions push XRP past $3.50 in 2026?

CME halted all futures and options trading on November 28, 2025 after a cooling failure at the CyrusOne CHI1 data center shut down the Globex platform. The outage froze pricing for oil, gold, FX, Treasurys and U.

CME’s Globex trading outage hits US markets ahead of Thanksgiving, disrupting futures, treasuries and commodities, raising concerns over data centre reliability and market stability

A major data center outage halted futures and options trading early Friday, leaving investors in the dark for more than 10 hours.

On Thursday, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that spot Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) products will begin trading for the first time on its registered futures exchanges. Here are three reasons why this is a big deal for the top two cryptocurrencies heading into 2026.

Trading in futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq have been halted due to a technical issue at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The malfunction is already longer than a similar, hours-long outage due to a technical error back in 2019 and underscores the reach of CME Group and its Globex electronic trading platform. It triggered widespread frustration as market participants contemplated the prospect of a lost trading session.

Navigating the futures market can often feel like steering through a maze of uncertainty and speculation. Among traders, the debate around the profitability of futures trading weaves through myths and market tales, leaving many to question what's reality.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on futures exchanges registered with the agency.

The pre-open session will now run in the futures segment as well. All stock and index futures will be covered. However, options will not have a pre-open window.

Binance Futures suspended a group of employees after whistleblowers linked an X post to a token launched on-chain just a minute ahead. The token, Year of Yellow Fruit, continued to trade as the news went viral.

Bitget, the cryptocurrency trading exchange, has recorded a staggering 4,468% surge in futures trading volume during the recent earnings season.