World & Nation
Fighting back against possible competition from a New York exchange in the lucrative business of trading in U.S.
Aug. 8, 1998
A federal grand jury indicted 46 commodity traders and brokers Wednesday for allegedly cheating hundreds of customers in thousands of transactions at the world’s two largest commodity exchanges, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Aug. 3, 1989
The Chicago Board of Trade received government clearance Monday to create a computer network to trade U.S.
Dec. 19, 1995
Business
The Chicago Board of Trade has signed a surveillance agreement with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to monitor trading activity in futures on the Tokyo price index.
June 6, 1988
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the Chicago Stock Exchange issued a joint statement that no trading will take place today in their auction-style trading pits or electronic systems.
Sept. 12, 2001
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday that the scandal-plagued Chicago Board of Trade has a seriously “deficient” system for detecting trading abuses.
Feb. 22, 1989
Undercover FBI agents working in the noisy, frenetic trading pits of the world’s two largest commodities exchanges have uncovered evidence of massive fraud that may have cost investors tens of millions of dollars.
Jan. 20, 1989
The Chicago Board of Trade unveiled a computerized trading system that will lengthen the trading day by operating from midnight to 6 a.m. and allow traders to use computers to obtain price information and communicate with each other.
Feb. 10, 1989
The FBI broadened its investigation Tuesday into commodities trading fraud on the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when its agents served subpoenas on a wide array of member firms of both exchanges.
Jan. 25, 1989
The Chicago Board of Trade, a major trading venue for commodity futures and other so-called derivative securities, said Thursday that it planned an initial public stock offering in the second half of this year.
April 29, 2005