The Chicago Mercantile Exchange halted electronic futures trading due to technical issues, affecting contracts from U.S. stock-indexes to gold and copper traded on CME Group Inc. (CME)’s Globex platform. CME Group, the world’s largest futures market, suspended the start of trading on all of its Globex electronic-trading markets except for Malaysian equity-index derivatives, according to its website. Dozens of commodities from corn to natural gas change hands on the all-electronic Globex platform that begins on Sunday nights in the U.S., as well as contracts on interest rates, foreign exchange and equity indexes. A ... (full story)