The trading floor, or "the pit" as it’s often called, has been the heart of financial markets for decades. This bustling environment, where traders use shouts and hand signals to trade stocks and ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The din on Cboe’s trading floor is growing louder even as ...

End of Era: Trading Pits Close The commodities futures pits in Chicago and New York where thousands of traders used to use hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork bellies to grains closed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the “roar” of the floor, the excitement of ...

Add the 1983 movie "Trading Places" to the list of films the next generation won't understand. The Eddie Murphy-Dan Aykroyd comedy features scenes from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, with ...

CHICAGO, July 1 (Reuters) - For many Chicago commodity traders like Redmond Harkins, little will change when the city's fabled futures pits shut down after more than 165 years of open-outcry dealing.

NEW YORK — Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the "roar" of the floor, the excitement of "4,000 ...

NEW YORK — Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the “roar” of the floor, the excitement of “4,000 ...