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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Chicago Mercantile Exchange News - 5/26/2011

CME Group's CEO should not get fat pay raise-ISS
Reuters
CHICAGO May 26 (Reuters) - CME Group Inc's (CME.O) CEO Craig Donohue should
not get the fat pay raise he was awarded because the exchange operator's
returns lagged its peers, shareholder advocacy group ISS said this week.
"There is a misalignment ...
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CME, Ukraine Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Futures
Bloomberg
By Claudia Carpenter and Kateryna Choursina - Thu May 26 17:06:48 GMT 2011
CME Group Inc. (CME), the world's largest futures exchange, signed separate
memoranda of understanding with Ukraine's government and central bank to
consider futures on grain ...
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CME says it is willing to trim margins when volatility eases
Reuters
By Manolo Serapio Jr SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The CME Group (CME.O), which
this month raised the amount of money required to trade silver and oil in
response to wild price swings, may bring down margins over time once the
market volatility eases, ...
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Grains trimmed, still a higher close
Agriculture Online
CHICAGO, Illinois (Agriculture.com)--Despite a late-day profit-taking
session, the CME Group grain and soybean markets were able to close higher
Thursday. The July corn futures settled 3 1/4 cents higher at $7.45 1/2.
The July soybean contract closed 7 ...
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First cheese sale at CME in a week
Dairy Herd Management
An interesting historical note: During 2008, the CME block/barrel prices
actually posted their price peaks during the last two weeks of May. Class
IV prices mimicked Class III with a large 25 cents gain in the June
contract but other months mixed on ...
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CME Group makes wise choice of battles
Medill Reports: Chicago
by Anjelica Tan The stock price of CME Group Inc. is quite high relative to
the stock of other exchanges in the industry. It hovers around $300, about
double the price of its rival, IntercontinentalExchange Inc. Choosing not
to fight in the highly ...
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RATE FUTURES REPORT: Implied Rates Sink On Greek Debt, Weak US Data
Wall Street Journal
At Thursday's settlement, fed-funds futures traders at CME Group Inc. (CME)
had priced in only about even odds for the rate-setting Federal Open Market
Committee to lift the funds rate in late June of next year. The belief that
Greece may not be able ...
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Making Money on Triple-Digit Oil
Zacks.com
BP (BP - Analyst Report) moved its energy trading operation from the
Chicago suburbs recently to take over the old CME Group (CME - Analyst
Report) trading floors on Wacker Drive when "the Merc" bought the CBOT and
moved all the pits to LaSalle Street ...
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=== Blogs - 1 new result for [cme] ===

Shareholder group objects to CEO pay at CME | Finance | Crain's ...
(Crain's) — Craig Donohue's pay at CME Group Inc. is being contested by
Institutional Shareholder Services, which argues that the CEO's
compensation was not supported by the company's 2010 subpar stock
performance. ...
<http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110526/NEWS01/110529912/shareholder-group-objects-to-ceo-pay-at-cme>
Chicago Business News
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=== Web - 1 new result for [cme] ===

CME eyes move into swaps in Europe expansion drive | Reuters
First cleared trade by Newedge and Citigroup * CME plans to launch interest
rate swaps next year By Luke Jeffs LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. exchange
...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/cme-clearing-idUSLDE74H10Y20110520>