Commodity trading on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) resumed at 1:25 pm on Tuesday (October 28) after an hours-long outage triggered by a technical issue earlier in the day.

The exchange shifted operations to its Disaster Recovery (DR) site before reopening markets. In a statement issued shortly after trading resumed, MCX said all systems are now functioning normally and that an investigation has been initiated on priority to determine the root cause of the problem.

The exchange also apologised for the disruption and assured market participants that corrective measures would be taken and updates would follow.

How the delay unfolded

MCX was scheduled to start at the usual 9 a.m.

Opening was first postponed to 9:30 am, then 10 am, and 10:30 am.

The exchange later removed an

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