The birthplace of open-outcry trading pits bids farewell to the tradition as CME caves in to the technological revolution already adopted by its peers The old days: a trader at the Chicago Mercantile ...

CME’s acceptance of the inevitability of electronic trading ... Chicago’s global centrality in the futures industry. But the plaintiff traders, many of whom formerly worked in the pits and ...

The commodities futures pits in Chicago and New York where thousands of traders used to use hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork bellies to grains closed after the bell on July 6.

The three major averages ultimately finished Wednesday higher following the Fed decision in what was a volatile day of ...

Chicago-based Futures Commission Merchant (FCM ... exchanges through its worldwide network of collocated CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways. The risk of trading Futures, Options and off-exchange foreign ...

An era is coming an end. The CME Group just announced that it will close most of its futures trading pits in Chicago and New York by this summer. The move is not surprising. Open-outcry is a form ...

Wacker Dr. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share R.J. O’Brien & Associates, a family-owned firm intertwined with Chicago’s legacy in the global market for futures trading, said Monday it’s ...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange recently announced that XRP futures contracts will debut on the commodities-focused ...