The world’s most famous and busiest commodity trading pits in Chicago and New York will close later this year, the CME Group announced earlier this week. For more than 150 years, colorful traders ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the “roar” of the floor, the excitement of ...

NEW YORK – When Marc Schwartz heard that many of America's last trading pits were closing down, the veteran commodities trader was hardly surprised. He spent 17 years yelling in the New York pits, but ...

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 ...

We have been super vocal about the opportunities available in commodities. Oil prices have strengthened considerably lately. Supply is tightening as oil companies adjust to weaker prices, higher costs ...

Learn how the Commodity Exchange Act governs U.S. commodities and futures trading, its role in financial markets, and the evolving challenge of cryptocurrency regulation.

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 ...