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Ending An Era, CME Group To Shutter Most Futures Pits
FYI: The world's largest futures market operator will shutter almost all of its open-outcry futures pits by July 2, ringing the closing bell on a once-raucous tradition that has been in decline since the rise of computerized trading. Regards, Ted http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USKBN0L82QJ20150205
(When I was a kid in high school, i worked a couple of summers as a pit runner at the CME)
