Greg Burns

The public knows William O'Connor as the former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, a fortune-builder who was instrumental in expanding the city's financial markets. On Friday, at his...

The Futures Fund That Got Away faces a day of reckoning in federal court, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission could be along for a bumpy ride. Lake States Commodities...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission earlier this month gave its blessing to the trade-practice surveillance program of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, despite one niggling detail. In the 12-month period under...

Rev. Jesse Jackson has a message for the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange: Whatever is done by the least of your brothers also...

After opening its doors to University of Michigan Business School researchers last year, the Chicago Board of Trade had to be pleased with the academics' main finding. Traders using open...

Even as the bull market in U.S. stocks continues to boost Chicago exchanges, the Frankfurt-based Eurex is pulling away as the world's No. 1 derivatives exchange. The all-electronic Eurex posted...

Say this for Chicago Mercantile Exchange veteran Lewis Borsellino: The guy has guts to match his flying fists. In an autobiography set to be published this spring, the ex-pit trader...

To glimpse one possible future for Chicago's major exchanges, take a look at the London International Financial Futures Exchange. In a year or so, Liffe expects to be all-electronic. Its...

Chicago, the mightiest symbol of the Industrial Age, is retooling itself for the Global Era. As economies across the world become more interconnected than ever, the stakes are higher for...

By all accounts, it was an unusual meeting. On short notice, newly elected Chicago Board of Trade Chairman David Brennan flew to Frankfurt Jan. 21 to meet top officials of...