Among the high-profile deals it has given the green light within the past year: the union of XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Sirius, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's (nyse: CME - news - people ) purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Reuters also looks attractive because of several new products it has in the works, most notably FX MarketsSpace, a 50-50 joint venture with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ).
The boom over the last six years coincides with the introduction of electronic trading side-by-side with floor traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) and the Board of Trade.
One way to play this is to purchase out-of-the-money call options on the yen traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ).
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) offers future contracts based on temperature and snowfall.
In 2005, average daily volume at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) soared 34% from a record 2004, and the number of contracts traded for the year surpassed 1 billion.
But ISE could just as easily use its new stock exchange as a springboard for an acquisition of the CBOE or the American Stock Exchange , or a merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ).
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ), the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
Nymex Holdings (nyse: NMX - news - people ), the parent of energy trading giant New York Merc, is slashing costs over the next three months, specifically targeting the population of its trading floor, which has seen volume dwindle as more contracts are traded through an electronic alliance with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ).
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