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On October 17, 2006, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced the purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade for $8 billion in stock, joining the two financial institutions as CME Group, Inc. On July 9, 2007, the announced merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was approved by CBOT shareholders, "creating the largest derivatives market ever."
In September 2019, Cboe Global Markets announced it was relocating its headquarters to the Old Chicago Main Post Office and that a new trading floor would be constructed in the Chicago Board of Trade building, which was the space the exchange originally occupied in the 1970s and 1980s. [23] The new trading floor opened in June 2022. [24]
Traders in the corn pit at the Chicago Board of Trade. Commodity traders are people or companies who speculate and trade in commodities as diverse as metals and spices.
CME Group Inc. is an American financial services company based in Chicago that operates financial derivatives exchanges including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and The Commodity Exchange. The company also owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices.
On October 17, 2006, Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced a merger with the Chicago Board of Trade in an $8 billion deal. [7] [8] Shareholders of both companies approved the merger on July 9, 2007, [9] and the deal closed on July 12, 2007. [10] [11] The overarching holding company then launched as CME Group. [9]
O'Connor was founded in 1977 by mathematician Michael Greenbaum and was named for Edmund (Ed) and Williams (Bill) O'Connor. [8] The O'Connor brothers had made a fortune trading grain on the Chicago Board of Trade and founded First Options, a clearing house.
Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) (Since 2012, a Designated Contract Market owned by the CME Group) NEX Group plc (NXG.L) (Since 2018, a Swap Execution Facility owned by the CME Group) [6] Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) 2001; New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) 2005; Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) 2007
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon. Built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it has served as the primary trading venue of the CBOT and later the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.