The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is a commodity exchange established in 1848. The Chicago Board of Trade originally traded only agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn, and soybeans.

The MidAmerica Commodities Exchange–a small-scale Chicago futures mart that long served as a training ground for novice traders hoping to move up to the city’s bigger exchanges–is… ...

Less than two months after the Chicago Board of Trade and the Commodity Exchange unveiled plans to make the Comex a wholly owned subsidiary of the CBOT, members of the faltering New York futures ma… ...

The CBOT focuses more on agricultural commodities and interest rate products, while the CME has a larger presence in equity index products and foreign exchange.

IntercontinentalExchange Inc. on Thursday made an unsolicited $9.9 billion all-stock bid for commodities exchange CBOT Holdings Inc., which has already agreed to an $8 billion takeover by Chicago ...

A weaker dollar index and a rose in the long-term bond prices were primarily bullish factors for commodities in June. The ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Electronic commodities trading platform InterContinental Exchange , known as ICE, said Thursday it's made an unsolicited offer to merge with CBOT Holdings , parent of the ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- IntercontinentalExchange roiled the exchange sector Thursday, aggressively bidding to disrupt a competitor's deal that would give rise to the world's largest agricultural ...

They are the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and the Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX). Commodities are traded as ...

In addition to trading commodities or commodity derivatives, investors can also take a more diversified approach by trading commodity exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.The Invesco Optimum Yield ...

Three types of wheat trade on the U.S. futures exchange: CBOT soft red winter wheat: ... My weekly report covers the market movements of over 29 different commodities and provides bullish, bearish ...