While the stock market has been drifting sidewise, another exchange has been moving at a furious pace. At Chicago’s Board of Trade, biggest and busiest commodity market in the world, pit brokers have ...

Every morning at 9:30, a big bell rings in the pit room of Chicago’s Board of Trade. It sends traders swarming over the floor, starts the furious finger signaling which means “buy” and “sell” in the ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Louis Barbera will go to work in downtown Manhattan on Monday to trade soft commodities as he has done for almost two decades. But instead of stepping into a circular trading pit ...

President Donald Trump's auto and retaliatory tariffs on key U.S. trading partners are contributing to market volatility. Trump also recently noted he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from countries ...

CHICAGO, June 20 (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved the Chicago Board of Trade's plan to extend open-outcry grain trading by 45 minutes a day, according to the agency's ...

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