The Chicago Board of Trade announced that its 30-Year Treasury Bond options on futures contract set a record on Thursday, as electronic trading volume surpassed 80,000 contracts at the close of trading.
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Chicago Board Of Trade Holdings today announced that its Board of Directors, after consultation with its legal and financial advisors, has authorized the company, on the basis permitted by its merger agreement with Chicago Mercantile Exchange to begin discussions and exchange information with Intercontinental Exchange Inc. relating to ICE's previously announced proposal.
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Chicago Board Of Trade today announced that the special meetings of CBOT Holdings stockholders and CBOT members to vote on the merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which were scheduled to occur on April 4, 2007, have been postponed to give the Board of Directors of CBOT Holdings, its Special Transaction Committee and the Board of Directors of the CBOT sufficient time to complete their review of the previously announced proposal from IntercontinentalE xchange.
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Chicago Board Of Trade Holdings, Inc., holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade, one of the leading global derivatives exchanges, today announced that it will release financial results for its 2007 first quarter, ending March 31, 2007, on Thursday, April 19, 2007.
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CBOT Holdings, Inc., holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade, one of the leading global derivatives exchanges, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal letter from Intercontinental Exchange, Inc..
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Following the October 17, 2006, announcement of their proposed merger to create the most extensive and diverse global derivatives exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and Chicago Board Of Trade Holdings, Inc. today announced new proposed timelines for electronic migration to CME Globex® and trading floor consolidation.
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IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) today announced it has made a proposal to the Board of Directors of Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT Holdings, Inc.) (NYSE: BOT) to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction that would create the world's most comprehensive derivatives exchange.
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The Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that February's volume reached a record 86,224,665 contracts, an increase of 29 percent over February 2006. Average daily volume for February was a record 4,538,140 contracts traded each day, also up 29 percent compared with the same month last year.
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The Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that February's volume reached a record 86,224,665 contracts, an increase of 29 percent over February 2006. Average daily volume for February was a record 4,538,140 contracts traded each day, also up 29 percent compared with the same month last year.
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that it set an all-time record for trading volume Tuesday, as total Exchange volume surpassed 11 million contracts. The new CBOT volume record, 11,196,830 contracts, was 44 percent better than the previous all-time record, 7,791,833 contracts, set on November 28, 2006.
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that trading of its Full-sized (5,000 Oz.) Silver futures contracts set a record on February 26, 2007, as volume eclipsed more than 15,000 contracts for the first time. The new record, 15,197 contracts, surpassed the previous record of 14,900 contracts set on January 5, 2007.
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that trading in its 10-year Interest Rate Swaps contract set a record on Friday, February 23, 2007, as volume climbed above 15,000 contracts for the first time. The new record, 15,782 contracts, surpasses the previous record, 14,835 contracts, set on March 13, 2003.
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