Greg Burns

Now that the Chicago Board of Trade has gotten its futures contract on the Dow Jones industrial average off the ground in an open-outcry extravaganza, can an electronic version be...

Anthony S. Ramirez of south suburban Homewood is a trading firm's worst nightmare: a former employee who knows just enough to be dangerous. On Nov. 15, 1993, the twenty-something investment...

Even as its membership prices continue falling, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is getting a rare break. An expedient deal that the Merc made earlier this year to upgrade its Globex...

Company-sanctioned sex parties. Rape-and-murder threats on the job. Lewd graffiti scrawled on cars as they rolled down assembly lines toward female employees. Can this be the same plant in Normal,...

Former U.S. Labor Secretary Lynn Martin has been subpoenaed to answer questions under oath next week about her role in the government's sexual-harassment lawsuit against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America,...

After six years of false starts, Chicago's futures exchanges are finally talking turkey about unified clearing, but the bird is far from cooked. Big differences still separate the opposing camps,...

As head of ABN AMRO Chicago Corp., Jack Wing presided over one of the year's bigger deals in the futures business: The buyout of Citicorp Futures in April. Turns out,...

Just a year ago, when Heike Eckert of Deutsche Borse AG would pay marketing calls in Chicago, no one took her electronic exchange all that seriously. "They said electronic trading...

The 1987 stock market crash gave the Chicago Board Options Exchange a black eye that lasted for years. To ensure that the next market crash is less traumatic, CBOE brass...

It's no secret the Chicago Mercantile Exchange currency markets need help. In July alone, volume fell 11.3 percent from a year ago. Charles Minnaar of the rival New York Cotton...