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Old Chicago Stock Exchange Building, ca. 1894. The Chicago Stock Exchange was founded in a formal meeting on March 21, 1882. At this time, Charles Henrotin was elected the chairman and president. In April that year, a lease was taken out at 115 Dearborn Street for the location of the exchange and during that year 750 memberships were sold. [4]
Founded by the Chicago Board of Trade in 1973 and member-owned for several decades, the Chicago Board Options Exchange was the first exchange to list standardized, exchange-traded stock options, and began its first day of trading on April 26, 1973, in celebration of the 125th birthday of the Chicago Board of Trade. [3]
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), was founded in 1898 as a nonprofit corporation. [2] In 1919, it established its clearing house. [2] In 2000, CME demutualized (became a joint stock company). [2] In 2002, CME Group, the parent company of CME, became a public company via an initial public offering. [2]
On October 17, 2006, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced the purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade for $8 billion in stock, joining the two financial institutions as CME Group, Inc. On July 9, 2007, the announced merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was approved by CBOT shareholders, "creating the largest derivatives market ever." [8]
Also, since 1920 Krupp held 31.8% of Bofors stock through its Swedish subsidiary AB Boforsintressenter despite a 1916 law prohibiting foreigners from having over 20% stock of a Swedish business. As a result of such a collaboration, Bofors prospered, and by the early 1930s it employed ~2800 people (not counting the supply subsidiaries). [15]
The exchange offered 13,380 (as of January 20, 2016) security futures, including 2662 futures on exchange-traded funds and 1846 No Dividend Risk. [14] A OneChicago single stock futures contract was an agreement to deliver 100 shares of a specific stock at a designated date in the future, called the expiration date.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon. Built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it has served as the primary trading venue of the CBOT and later the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
BATS Global Markets is a global stock exchange operator founded in Lenexa, Kansas, with additional offices in London, New York, Chicago, and Singapore.BATS was founded in June 2005, became an operator of a licensed U.S. stock exchange in 2008 and opened its pan-European stock market in October 2008.