By Jacob Bunge Trading in some Treasury futures contracts were briefly halted just before Friday’s job report, after big orders hit the market. Chicago-based CME Group Inc. CME -0.42% triggered a five-second pause in contracts linked to the yields of 10-year and 30-year Treasury bonds seconds before the U.S. government reported that employment growth slowed in July. “The market started to run just before the number came out,� said Glenn Holland, managing director at CQ Solutions, who works on CME’s Chicago trading floor. Traders said that shortly after 8:29 ET – one minute before the jobs report was due out – an order came in bidding to buy about 2,000 10-year Treasury contracts. After the order was partly filled, another bid followed, and CME’s systems paused the market three seconds ahead of 8:30. A spokesman for CME confirmed the exchange’s systems paused trading in the contracts Friday.

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