Wall St opens higher, futures resume trade after outage

[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Nov 28) with futures trading springing back to life from an hours-long CME Group outage that had temporarily frozen currencies, commodities and equity contracts around the globe.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 55.1 points, or 0.12 per cent, at the open to 47,482.25.

The S&P 500 rose 9.9 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 6,822.52​, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 76.9 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 23,291.588. REUTERS