His grandfather first started at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) as a runner when he was just 13 ... When the CME began the process of stripping away over half of its 35 trading pits on July 2, it ...

The old-fashioned futures trading pit is one of the last to go On July 6, Chicago-based CME Group Inc closed its historic trading pits – once used to trade in commodities like cattle, gold and corn – ...

The commodities futures pits in Chicago and New York where thousands of traders used to use hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork bellies to grains closed after the bell on July 6.

The first day of May was a watershed moment for agricultural commodity markets and farmers and ranchers. May 1 marked the end of live-person pit trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and its ...

Board of Trade Clearing Corp. changed Morgan Stanley boosts its stake in Clearing Corp. (Crain's) -- Morgan Stanley agreed to pay about $4.4 million for a 7% stake in Chicago-based Clearing Corp ...

Todd is a member of Chicago Board of Trade where he traded in the Dow Bond and Grain Pits.He joined CWS trading in 2004 as managing director and CFO. CWS is a boutique proprietary trading firm ...