CHICAGO (Reuters) - On a recent morning in the Chicago Board of Trade's soybean futures pit, the trading action looked like this: One trader hiked up a leg onto a metal railing, stretching his ...

Thirty years ago, shouting, sweating traders thronged the trading pits of Chicago's exchange markets in barely controlled chaos. Today, a lot of... Chicago Pits Quieter, But Traders' Outcries Linger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A museum dedicated to preserving the legacy of open outcry trading opened Tuesday inside the Chicago Board of Trade Building, the latest step in an effort to revive the nearly century-old structure.

On Monday, jury selection began in a trial that few would have predicted ever would come to pass 11 years ago when longtime Chicago traders sued CME Group, alleging they were cheated when the old ...

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 ...

Prime Trading has established a floor operation at Cboe Options Exchange, in a sign the 177 year-old tradition of face-to-face derivatives trading in Chicago is continuing to attract investment. Prime ...