
“We are aware of it and will be doing a review of the trades, which is standard operating procedure for something like this,” Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Bart Chilton said in response to a query from Reuters.
CME Group halted trading in some Treasury futures for five seconds, beginning just before the 8:30 am ET (1230 GMT) release of the monthly jobs report.
Large trades in 10-year and 30-year Treasury futures were made just prior to the release of the report. Such trades and large market moves can trigger automatic stops in CME markets.
