Laurie Cohen

Sue Barry, an Air Force Reserve triage nurse who on the battlefield has responsibility to decide-sometimes with only seconds to spare-who lives and who dies, sat glued to the television...

Two weeks shy of its 15th birthday, the federal agency that regulates futures trading is facing the biggest political crisis of its rocky history. The outcome could determine the fate...

On the morning of Oct. 22, 1987, three days after the historic stock market crash, New York commodity broker B. Thomas Byrne Jr. was glued to his computer screen. He...

After months of battling the state`s insurance industry, consumer groups conceded Thursday they lack legislative support this spring for a 15 percent rollback in auto insurance rates. A pro-consumer group`s...

When Alice and John Herring decided to open a commodity trading account in 1985 with Chicago-based RB&H Inc., the novice investors thought they had a sure-fire retirement investment plan. After...

For years, soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade took a back seat to flashier new financial products. But last spring`s drought turned the soybean pit into the hottest...

The FBI has kept two undercover agents on the trading floors of Chicago exchanges in a highly unusual move to tape-record traders reacting to waves of subpoenas in the biggest...

Teams of FBI agents descended on Chicago`s futures exchanges Tuesday, handing out at least 200 subpoenas in a sweeping escalation of Operation Sourmash, the largest investigation ever of corruption on...

Fear and greed are constant companions of fast-lane traders in Chicago`s futures pits, where a split-second decision can make or break a fortune. Last week, fear gained the upper hand...

Thomas Theobald, chairman of Continental Illinois Corp., stands on a balcony overlooking the Italian marble columns, the leaded glass windows and the towering cathedral ceiling of his bank`s second-floor lobby....