Stock futures resumed trading on Friday following a “cooling issue” at a data center that caused a disruption in assets traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 56 points, or 0.1%, when trading stopped. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures traded 0.2% higher and 0.3%, respectively. The disruption could cause even more volatility, as Wall Street comes back from the Thanksgiving holiday for a shortened trading session on Friday. Trading volumes the day after Thanksgiving are historically well below average, meaning moves — to the upside and the downside — could be more extreme. Friday also marks the last trading day of November. A pullback in tech stocks have weighed on the major averages this month, as doubt swirled around the future profitability of AI companies. Yet some investors are hopeful that this month’s slide will mean a year-end rally is in store for the major averages, as they step into buy stocks that have been unduly punished at more attractive valuations. As of Wednesday’s close, the Dow and the S&P 500 were slightly lower on the month, each set to snap six straight months of gains. The Nasdaq fell 2%, on track to end a seven month advance. Stocks are on pace to wrap up a winning week, following a turnaround in tech names. The Dow is up more than 2% week to date, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are higher by 3% and 4%, respectively, in the weekly period. U.S. Treasury yields were relatively unchanged on Friday after a data center issue at the the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) disrupted trading. The 10-year Treasury was up less than 1 basis point at 4.00%, while the 30-year bond yield climbed less than a basis point to 4.651%. The 2-year note yield fell more than 1 basis point to 3.479%. Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Friday as U.S. stock futures stayed flat over Thanksgiving Day, leaving the Nasdaq Composite on track to end a seven-month winning streak. Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.17% to 50,253.91, while the broad-based Topix was 0.29% higher to end at 3,378.44. Both Japanese indexes marked their third day of gains. South Korea’s Kospi was down 1.51% and closed at 3,926.59, and the small-cap Kosdaq gained 3.71% and finished at 912.67. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was marginally lower, closing at 8,614.1. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 0.34% finishing at 25,858.89, while the mainland Chinese CSI 300 rose 0.25% to end at 4,526.67. Brent crude oil futures were largely unchanged on Friday while drawn-out Russia-Ukraine peace talks kept geopolitical risks elevated, while traders kept one eye on the outcome of an OPEC+ meeting on Sunday for clues about potential output changes. However, U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were frozen after a system outage at exchange operator CME Group. Front-month Brent crude futures for January , which expire on Friday, were down 17 cents, or 0.27%, at $63.17 a barrel. The more active February contract changed hands at $62.80, down 7 cents. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude froze at $59.08 a barrel, up 43 cents, or 0.73%. There was no settlement on Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Gold prices rose on Friday to a two-week high and were on track for a fourth straight monthly rise on optimism over a possible U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut in December. Spot gold rose 0.4% to $4,174.15 per ounce, its highest since November 14, and was set for a 2.7% weekly gain. Bullion is set to register a 3.9% rise this month. “The underlying sentiment (in gold) remains very positive… There are concerns about global debt, tariffs and sanctions” while ongoing central bank buying has also been driving gold’s rally this year, said independent analyst Ross Norman.