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• Macquarie Group to Acquire US Futures Execution and Clearing Business, Shatkin Arbor, Inc

  - 2008-08-19

  CHICAGO -- Macquarie Group Macquarie, a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, today announced it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the business and assets of US futures clearing firm, Shatkin Arbor, Inc. Shatkin Arbor. Shatkin Arbor will be integrated into Macquarie's...

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• Home Price Indices Futures

  - 2008-04-01

  THIS ARTICLE ANALYZES THE POTENTIAL USE OF Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME housing futures for hedging, arbitrage and speculative purposes. The quote from the CME web page on housing futures reads: "CME Housing futures and options are the first comprehensive financial tools that make it possible to trade U.S. real estate...

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• CME Chairman Emeritus Melamed Appointed Special Financial Advisor to City of Guangzhou, China Provides Keynote at Peking University's Financial Derivatives Innovation Conference.

  - 2008-03-17

  M2 PRESSWIRE-17 March 2008-CME: CME Chairman Emeritus Melamed Appointed Special Financial Advisor to City of Guangzhou, China Provides Keynote at Peking University's Financial Derivatives Innovation ConferenceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032008 CHICAGO, -- CME Group, the world's largest and most...

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• Tops & bottoms of 2007

  - 2008-02-01

  It was another banner year for the futures industry with record volumes, mergers and increasing share prices. The subprime crisis hit the complete impact of which is still unknown; the commodity bull resumed and Chicago's major futures exchanges merged. Here is our annual offbeat look at some of the events...

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• Penson GHCO Announces Advanced Electronic Trading Capability for Sophisticated Customers

  - 2008-01-22

  CHICAGO -- Penson GHCO, the futures and derivatives clearing subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), announced today the launch of PFIX API, an advanced electronic trading capability based on the securities industry FIX standard protocol. PFIX API supports sophisticated customers trading in multiple asset classes via their own trading...

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• Derivatives Trading Expert Joins Storm Exchange from Chicago Mercantile Exchange

  - 2007-12-10

  Pioneer in Weather Derivatives Market, David Smith, Named Vice President of Sales for Weather Risk Firm

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• Charlie Carey and Terry Duffy: Dynamic duo bends laws of (exchange) physics

  - 2007-10-01

  Some might say the reason for the merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME and Chicago Board of Trade CBOT were hogs. More specifically, the hog futures pit at the CME where then CBOT member Charlie Carey went to go trade when the grains were a bit slow in the...

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• Chicago is no second city

  - 2007-08-01

  EDITOR'S NOTE After victory was declared by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME on the bidding war for the Chicago Board of Trade CBOT in the late afternoon of July 9, the skies opened up and it poured rain in Chicago. No doubt, Ceres, the goddess of grain whose...

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• Playing his hand; The union between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade was challenged up to the last minute, testing the skill and patience of the CME's chief executive officer.(IntercontinentalExchange Inc. and Chicago Mercant

  - 2007-07-23

  Byline: ISABELLE CLARY At first, the planned union between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade seemed headed to the altar without a glitch, promising a trader-friendly derivatives powerhouse with the full spectrum of U.S Byline: ISABELLE CLARY ...

  Tags: Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., CME Group Inc., IntercontinentalExchange Inc., merger

• Buying Out the Market: M&A in the Exchange Sector

  - 2007-07-16

  There have been a number of mergers in the financial and commodities exchange sector in the first half of 2007. The mergers are creating larger firms with more buying power and also creating new rivalries as combined exchanges enter new markets. These trends will likely lead to continued consolidation in...

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• City offers aid for CME; Public funds on tap as merged exchange plans to cut 410 jobs.(News)(Chicago Mercantile Exchange )

  - 2007-07-16

  Byline: ANN SAPHIR City officials are offering the newly joined Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade a potentially handsome wedding gift from taxpayers: millions of dollars in government subsidies, even as the exchange prepares t Byline: ANN SAPHIR ...

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• CBOT to merge with Chicago Merc in biggest financial exchange

  - 2007-07-09

  CHICAGO AFP — Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange shareholders voted Monday to merge into the world's biggest futures market, and the biggest exchange by share value, a joint statement said. Preliminary results released by the companies showed CBOT accepted the friendly bid worth an estimated 11...

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• Chicago Mercantile Exchange

  - 2007-07-02

  Pizza makers around the nation--from family run pizzerias to national delivery chains--are feeling the pinch from escalating costs for an essential ingredient in a hotly competitive, $30 billion-plus industry. The Associated Press reports that block cheddar cheese reached $2.08 a pound June 21 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, up 78...

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• CBOT bids go to the wire

  - 2007-07-01

  DOJ OKAYS CHICAGO TIE UP In the run up to the July 9 shareholder vote on the potential acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade CBOT by the Chicago Mercantile ExchangeCME, the action has been fast and furious, with revised bids from both the CME and the Intercontinental...

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• Chicago exchange battle part of a new global war; Only choices are bulk up to survive or dress up for sale.(Trading)(Chicago Mercantile Exchange)(Chicago Board of Trade )

  - 2007-06-25

  Byline: Isabelle Clary CHICAGO - Once seen as a sure deal, the proposed merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade has turned into a cliffhanger, mirroring the tense turf battle that is redrawing the map of the e ...

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• Nymex in negotiations with three suitors.

  - 2007-06-17

  Byline: Matthew Leising Jun 17, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The New York Mercantile Exchange Nymex is discussing its sale with three suitors. The energy market has held discussions with NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Boerse and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange....

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• Nymex shares surge to record on talk it is sounding out buyers

  - 2007-06-16

  Shares in the New York Mercantile Exchange Nymex, the historic home of oil trading on Wall Street, surged to a record high amid reports that the company is shopping around for potential buyers. Nymex managers are understood to be sounding out their opposite numbers at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME...

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• Trading briefs.(IntercontinentalExchange and ChemConnect merger)(Commodity Futures Trading Commission approves trade in Chicago Mercantile Exchange)(Brief article)

  - 2007-06-11

  ICE buys commodity trading business ATLANTA - IntercontinentalExchange will buy ChemConnect, a Houston-based trading venue for U.S. natural gas liquids such as propane and ethane, and chemicals such as ethylene, propylene and benzene. The price wa ICE buys commodity trading business ...

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• FX & Derivatives: Catering To An Appetite For Instant Gratification - With FXMarketSpace, Reuters And The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Are Targeting Traders' Need For Instantaneous Execution And Clearing. Mark Pelham Reports On The Further Opening Of T

  - 2007-06-01

  Byline: MARK PELHAM Byline: MARK PELHAM

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• Buy, buy, buy - Financial exchanges.

  - 2007-05-26

  Betting on their future As capital markets expand, the world's financial exchanges are booming and battling for global leadership TRADERS cannot resist a bet, even on their own fate. Amid a bidding war over Chicago's derivatives exchanges, the US Futures Exchange, ...

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