The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, North America’s largest financial derivatives market, announced plans to close its trading floor due to an outbreak of coronavirus.
CME Group, which, among other things, trades settlement bitcoin futures, will temporarily stop According to the press service, not a single case of infection was registered in the building, but thisThe move will be a precautionary measure to avoid spreading the virus to U.S. financial markets.
Resume Date The site is still unknown and will depend on the recommendations of epidemiologists.The company's headquarters will continue to operate as usual.
Currently, the Illinois state where the exchange is located has already registered 25 cases of COVID-19 infection.
Coronavirus affects not only tradeactivity, but also on the state of markets, including cryptocurrency. Against the backdrop of a general recession, investors are transferring their capital to the safest assets, to which they still do not attribute bitcoin.
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