(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 decline ...

Oil prices slipped on Tuesday, extending falls from the two previous sessions, as pressure from plans by OPEC to boost output ...

End of Era: Trading Pits Close 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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

The first thing that strikes you about the market is its energy. Traders shout prices over the ringing of mobile phones, barrow boys turn the air blue as they race past you, the name of their firms ...

Most Chicagoans remember the time when the city’s famed exchanges each day featured manic hordes of traders yelling and frantically signaling as futures contracts for commodities and financial ...

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 ...