Hand Signaling (open Outcry) Press Articles

Business Wire - CUSTOMER SUCCESS: Chicago Board Options Exchange is Bullish on Business Service Management from BMC Software

April 27, 2009 -- BSM Platform Delivers IT Efficiency, Availability and Performance to the Largest U.S. Options Exchange HOUSTON -- Chicago...

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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - The end of open outcry? Digital age silencing a growing number of Chicago traders.(Suburban Living)

February 27, 2007 -- Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff Writer Like in the good old days, Paul Richards was yelling. With the electronic trading system...

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Sunday Gazette - Mail; Charleston, W.V. - Digital age endangers NYSE trading floor

February 18, 2007 --

NEW YORK - Michael Rutigliano used to feel like Mickey Mantle each time he stepped onto the New York Stock Exchange floor.

The...

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Buffalo News - Stock traders at the NYSE face an uncertain future

February 17, 2007 --

Michael Rutigliano used to feel like Mickey Mantle each time he stepped on the New York Stock Exchange floor.

The longtime NYSE...

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - New Lloyd's chief moves in with reform on the agenda

April 24, 2006 --

NEW Lloyd's chief executive Richard Ward, pictured, takes up his post today with expectations high that he will modernise the 318- year-old...

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Birmingham Post (England), The - Stripey-blazered oil traders in good voice

September 13, 2005 --

Dealing on the London oil market was in full cry again yesterday after traders best known for their stripey blazers and frenzied hand signals...

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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - London exchange moves to electronic system

April 8, 2005 -- LONDON -- The pit at the International Petroleum Exchange fell silent for good Thursday, as the noisy practice of traders in multicolored jackets...

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Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Outcry as pit traders forced to go hi-tech

April 7, 2005 -- Byline: Jim Stanton THEY were called "barrow boy spivs" and "thugs" by 35 protesting Greenpeace activists whose attempts to interrupt their work...

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Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The - London exchange ends 'open outcry'

April 7, 2005 -- Byline: David Black THE oil trading pit at London's International Petroleum Exchange closes today, bringing "open outcry" to an end after 25...

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - Hi-tech hush falls on the oil trade

April 7, 2005 --

OPEN outcry in the oil trading pit ends tomorrow as trading in Brent crude futures at London's International Petroleum Exchange goes fully...

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