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OCTOBER 6, 2026 CME Dropped 24/7 Oil Trading. "Staffing" Is the Smallest Reason. On Friday CME Group withdrew its filing for a 24/7 oil futures contract, and a widely shared post made it sound like an exchange that couldn't find weekend staff. The record is stranger and more useful than that — a regulator's stay in July, a stated worry about unintended consequences, and a list of objections in which staffing is the least interesting one.