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Options exchange reopens after half-day outage

By Steve Rothwell
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trading on the biggest exchange for financial options resumed Thursday following an outage caused by software problems.

The Chicago Board of Options Exchange failed to open at its regular time of 9:30 a.m. Eastern, then reopened at 12:50 p.m. with trading of options on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, according to CBOE spokesperson Gail Osten.

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