The Chicago-based options trading venue is the home to the volatility index, or VIX, but traders who deal in certain products were shut out Thursday morning as multiple planned re-openings came and went.

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The shift will create openings for new competitors such as CoverHound, a well-funded San Francisco startup that has built a multiple-carrier comparison engine.

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