Feb 4 (Reuters) - The world's largest futures market operator will shutter almost all of its open-outcry futures pits by July 2, ringing the closing bell on a once-raucous tradition that has been in ...

CHICAGO - CME Group Inc confirmed on Tuesday that it will extend the trading session for grain and oilseed futures by five minutes starting next month as part of a transition to nearly all-electronic ...

SILVER LAKE, Kan. l The world’s most famous and busiest commodity trading pits in Chicago and New York will close later this year, per an announcement from the CME Group earlier last week. For over ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chalk up another victory of the machines over humans. The parent company of the Chicago Board of Trade and other exchanges is ending most trading involving people on the floor who ...

Meet Chuck McElveen, the future of futures. A floor trader for two decades, he fled the Chicago futures pits four years ago to start his own electronic trading firm, crossing the great digital divide.

U.S. grain brokers lamented CME Group Inc.'s decision to permanently end open-outcry options trading, saying that pit traders could help navigate volatile markets. The owner of the Chicago Board of ...

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NEW YORK – Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the “roar” of the floor, the excitement of “4,000 ...