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 after the bell on July 6.

The birthplace of open-outcry trading pits bids farewell to the tradition as CME caves in to the technological revolution already adopted by its peers The old days: a trader at the Chicago Mercantile ...

In the 1970s, Brookins was one of the only women in Chicago's commodity trading pits and later she became a top World Bank official. She was diagnosed as having the coronavirus before her death ...