Its shares are likely to soar even higher, now that the exchange is getting into energy and gold trading in a big way, with a 10-year agreement to trade the most popular oil, gold and other benchmark contracts of the New York Mercantile Exchange through its Globex electronic trading system.
The criminal charge comes about five months after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Mr. Taylor in a civil lawsuit, alleging he entered fabricated trades by bypassing an internal system that was designed to send electronic trades to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.