Chicago Mercantile Exchange news from FierceFinance

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will launch a new futures contract in April that will allow people to bet on the government's nonfarm payrolls indicators. Such contracts have been gaining steam in... Read more...

The clearest sign yet of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's growing stature: it is in talks to buy the Nymex. We're talking about an $11 billion deal. The New York Times reports the two exchanges are... Read more...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange CEO Craig Donohue may have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when he made this third--possibly decisive--bid for the Chicago Board of Trade. The new bid... Read more...

It looks like the Intercontinental Exchange may be building even more momentum in its bid to buy the... Read more...

We've been watching the saga of the Chicago Board of Trade, the target of a war between the Intercontinental Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The winner will certainly emerge as a... Read more...

Recall that the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had a nice cozy deal all sewn up when the Read more...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is pressing to persuade shareholders that the ICE's bid isn't more valuable... Read more...

The Chicago Board of Trade, as many expected, has delayed a vote on a merger proposal with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That opens the door a bit wider for the Intercontinental Exchange. For... Read more...

The Intercontinental Exchange has really shaken up the options exchange world with its surprise $10 billion bid for the Chicago Board of Trade. Recall that the CBOT already had a deal back in... Read more...

Frankly, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq get all the attention. But few can disregard the phenomenal success of the derivatives markets in Chicago. The Read more...