Technical glitch delays market opening at Multi-Commodity Exchange; probe initiated

The Multi-Commodity Exchange confronted disruptions to operations attributable to a technical problem on Tuesday (October 28, 2025), forcing it to begin buying and selling over 4 hours late and shift operations to its catastrophe restoration website.

The commodities bourse stated that each one its buying and selling techniques at the moment are functioning usually and an investigation into the problem has been initiated on precedence.

“Due to a technical problem on the Exchange, the graduation of buying and selling on Tuesday (October 28) was delayed. Operations have been shifted to the Disaster Recovery (DR) website, and buying and selling began at 1:25 p.m.,” the Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) stated in a regulatory submitting.

The commodities bourse added that each one buying and selling techniques at the moment are functioning usually. MCX famous that an investigation into the problem has been initiated on precedence.

“We are dedicated to figuring out the trigger and implementing vital corrective measures. Updates on our findings and actions taken might be shared sooner or later,” MCX stated in clarification to inventory exchanges.

Earlier, buying and selling exercise on the MCX was disrupted for over 4 hours attributable to a technical glitch, resulting in a number of delays within the begin of the session and inflicting uncertainty amongst market individuals.

The trade had initially rescheduled the 9 a.m. begin to 9:30 a.m., then to 10 a.m., 10:30 am, 11:49 a.m. and 12:35 p.m., earlier than asserting a particular session between 1:20 p.m. and 1:24 p.m., adopted by regular buying and selling from 1:25 p.m.

The outage impacted buying and selling in key commodity contracts comparable to gold, silver, crude oil, and base metals like copper, zinc and aluminium.

In July this 12 months, a glitch delayed market opening by over an hour, with buying and selling starting at round 10:17 a.m. Prior to that, in February 2024, a serious outage linked to a brand new buying and selling platform pressured a four-hour suspension of operations.

Shares of MCX declined 2.05% to shut at ₹9,118.15 apiece on the BSE, whereas the scrip of the commodities trade fell 1.90% to settle at ₹9,129 a chunk on the NSE.

Published – October 28, 2025 11:33 pm IST

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