Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures were higher on Friday morning in electronic trading and pit-traded futures appear set to open higher as pressure from the human flu outbreaks appeared to be ...

As a young broker in the hog pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , Terrence A. (Terry) Duffy learned how to break up fights. It was a boisterous place where traders signaled, shouted and ...

Now 40, Holzrichter is managing director of CME Group Inc.’s operations division, ... 1986-88: Market reporter, lean hog pit, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. 1984-86: Part-time salesperson, ...

Duffy, who was a trader in the exchange’s hog pits for years before moving to the C-suite, said it would be “impossible” to screen everyone before they walked onto the trading floor, to ...

Andrew McKerr and 24 other traders brought their suit as shareholders, or leaseholders of such shares, of CME Group and its subsidiary, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). CBOT runs an exchange for ...

The once-raucous pork-belly trading pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), featured in the 1980s Dan Aykroyd-Eddie Murphy comedy "Trading Places," will fall silent, swept aside by the rush ...

(Crain's) — Chicago's floor traders are fearful that their days are numbered—and that their own company is delivering the death blow.

Most actively traded CME July lean hog futures rose 1.950 cents to settle at 104.925 cents per pound. August feeder cattle ended down 1.100 cents at 298.825 cents per pound.

More than a decade after the Libor-rigging scandal shocked the financial industry, derivatives traders in CME Group Inc.’s last open-outcry pit are finally shifting their focus to contracts ...