CME Group (CME) Declares $0.66 Quarterly Dividend; 2.1% Yield

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Regulators approve new Chicago-based options trading floor

August 2, 2017 4:44 PM EDT

By John McCrank

NEW YORK (Reuters) - (This August 2 story, corrects paragraph 5 to say CME closed its New York-based energy and metals options pits last year, instead of most of its options pits, and to say CME still offers open-outcry trade in options on agricultural and financial products in Chicago, instead of CME still offers open-outcry trade in options on agricultural futures)

The first new U.S. open-outcry trading floor in decades was approved by regulators on Wednesday, allowing the BOX Options Exchange to buck the trend of shuttering... More

CME Group (CME) Tops Q2 EPS by 2c, Sales Miss

August 1, 2017 7:01 AM EDT

CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) reported Q2 EPS of $1.23, $0.02 better than the analyst estimate of $1.21. Revenue for the quarter came in at $925 million versus the consensus estimate of $930.55 million.

"We drove strong growth in key product areas, with average daily volume up nine... More