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Moscow Exchange to Resume Derivates Trading After Interruption

By The Moscow Times

Jan. 12, 2015

Employees work on the floor of the Moscow Exchange.

The Moscow Exchange said trading on its derivatives market would resume at 2.50 p.m. (1150 GMT) after it was interrupted for an unknown reason.

Trading on its derivatives market was interrupted at 2:04 p.m. (1104 GMT) on Monday.

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