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 ...

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.

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 ...