Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings News

Secret members at that! The source of this is the Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal we have new members of the TBTF Club because of language inserted into the Dodd-Frank Bill by Senator Chris Dodd.

CHICAGO - Grains futures mostly rose in early trading Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Service providers gathered outside the Department of Human Services in Peoria on Wednesday to hold a mock funeral for what they call the death of human services.

Protesters disrupted a shareholder meeting of CME Group Inc. Wednesday, loudly arguing that the exchange operator got an unjustified tax break from the state and should return the money to support government programs for the poor.

CME Group's annual shareholder meeting ground to a halt on Wednesday as activist shareholders shouted for the exchange operator to pay its "fair share" of taxes.

Seniors, people with disabilities and health care workers blocked the front entrance to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Wednesday around 9:30 this morning, as well the adjacent Jackson and LaSalle Streets.

Chicago Police say they arrested 15 protesters who were blocking traffic during a demonstration in the city's financial district Wednesday.

Back in April, we reported that the Crown Family, owner the old the Chicago Mercantile Exchange site, had teamed up with Tishman Speyer to develop the property with a one-million-square-foot office tower.

As a possible strike looms, an estimated 4,000 Chicago Public School teachers will rally at the Auditorium Theatre at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday before marching to Board of Education's headquarters just before 6 p.m. The Chicago Teachers Union said teachers will be bused in after school, and outdoor overflow space was set aside when theater space fills ... (more)

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IntercontinentalExchange Inc. and Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. are the two companies left bidding for the London Metal Exchange, the world's biggest metals market, after the CME Group Inc.

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CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures exchange, extends grain-trading hours today in response to the threat of competitors seeking a share of the electronic transactions that now dominate the market.

The owner of the Chicago futures markets said Friday it will immediately implement expanded hours for trading of grain contracts, overriding objections of some that the move will make prices more volatile.

Amid pressure from the nation's largest grain association and "significant feedback," the CME Group Inc .

A 1.2 billion pound bid from Hong Kong for the London Metal Exchange could be hard to beat on price and carried assurances about maintaining the LME's 135-year-old traditions, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures exchange, amended a proposal for expanded trading in grains to 21 hours a day after withdrawing an earlier plan for 22 hours that drew complaints from clients.

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., one of three remaining bidders for the London Metal Exchange, should lose government protections against competition if it begins trading commodities, said William Barkshire, chief operating officer of Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.

The China Financial Futures Exchange this week sealed agreements with four Western exchange operators, aiming to tap the expertise of established markets following a surge in trading volume.

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