Stuck in the pits.
Chicago's two big futures exchanges, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, are suffering because of their unwillingness to embrace electronic trading, where the future would appear to belong. Both exchanges are still dominated by thousands of floor traders shouting across...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 348; no. 8075; p. 74 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
July 4 1998
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