India, Oct. 28 -- The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) will resume normal trading from 1:25 pm today, after a special five-minute trading session from 1:20 pm to 1:24 pm, according to the MCX website. That, after a technical glitch halted commodity trading for nearly five hours.

"The commencement of trading is delayed due to a technical issue. The time of commencement of trading will be informed to market participants. Inconvenience is regretted," a notice on the MCX India website had stated.

Initially, trading had been delayed from its normal opening time of 9:00 am to 9:30 am, which was then postponed to 10:00 am.

According to reports, MCX has been suffering from technical issues for the past two to three days - trading orders are not ...