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Chicago Mercantile Exchange lumber futures closed lower on Tuesday amid further profit-taking with reports of slowing cash trade weighing on futures.

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Derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!cme /quotes/nls/cme on Friday saw trading activity on its markets jump to levels last seen at the onset of the financial crisis, amid a drop in the U.S unemployment rate and stock market turbulence driven by Greece's debt woes.

Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and is on the board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

With regulations looming that could weaken the financial might of U.S. exchanges, Chicago's trading industry is counting on what's commonly considered a sure thing.

With regulations looming that could weaken the financial might of U.S. exchanges, Chicago's trading industry is counting on what's commonly considered a sure thing.

Exactly what a slew of new regulations could mean for major U.S. exchanges looms as the companies report quarterly results this week and next.

CME Group Inc. , the worlda s largest futures market, is in talks to buy the News Corp.

Exchange operator CME Group Inc is a leading bidder to buy Dow Jones & Co's index business, although a final price and terms have yet to be agreed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

CME Group Inc. is the leading contender to purchase the News Corp. stock-index business that owns the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in U.S. trading on Feb.

CME Group Inc. faces growing opposition from futures brokers and Wall Street banks uncomfortable with the structure of its new credit default swap clearing service.

The NYSE composite dropped 0.6%. The S&P 500 trimmed off 0.4%. The Dow eased only a fraction, as gains in Travelers Cos.

U.S. regulators rejected as "unpersuasive" CME Group Inc. 's decision to bar traders from moving their Treasury futures positions to upstart exchange ELX Futures by using a block-trade mechanism offered by ELX.

After two slow years, the merger revival of 2010 kicked off in style this week with Kraft Foods Inc.'s $19 billion-plus deal to acquire candy-maker Cadbury PLC.

LUMBER : SPF lumber sales were steady and relatively strong for much of the week, prompting producers to elevate prices aggressively in the latter half.

The International Monetary Market was introduced in December 1971 and formally implemented in May 1972, although its roots can be traced to the end of Bretton Woods through the 1971 Smithsonian Agreement and Nixon's suspension of U.S. dollar's convertibility to gold.

A case of trading-pit envy is rumbling in Chicago. "Floored," a documentary that shows the fading of the city's rough and rowdy open-outcry culture, is driving some of Chicago's top electronic traders to defend the drama of their mouse-click world.

Apparently weather derivatives can predict the weather, according to Chincarini, On the Efficiency of the Weather Derivatives Market , which studies weather futures traded over the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Provides first neutral interface that connects buy-and sell-side to two central clearing counterparties for processing CDS trades.