CME Group

The U.S. CME Group is one of the largest options exchanges and the largest derivatives exchange in the world, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, which on 12 July 2007 from the merger of the stock exchanges Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT ) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME ) was born. The previously larger competitors EUREX was relegated to second place.

The CME Group employs 2570 employees in their companies, who are employed at nine locations. Except for two sites that are owned by the CME Group, these are partially rented by the year 2069. Currently, this process some 12.3 million contracts per day.

The share capital is divided into Class A shares and Class B shares on. The Class A shares are traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CME. Class B shares can not be traded freely, they are bound to a membership at one of the operated by CME Group exchanges. Currently 1750 holders are listed by the Class B shares.

History

Since October 2006, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange negotiated with the Chicago Board of Trade on a merger of the two futures and options exchanges. At the beginning of the negotiations, the CME offered eight billion U.S. dollars for the CBOT. By the order of the Intercontinental Exchange in March 2007, over ten billion U.S. dollars, improved the CME her bid for CBOT in three stages to 11.3 billion U.S. dollars after.

The consummated on August 22, 2008 Acquisition of NYMEX Holdings Inc., the world's largest energy futures exchange, threatened to fail at the last minute by the resistance of members of the NYMEX Holding. The CME Group offered at the end of the negotiations for each share certificate of NYMEX Holdings Inc. $ 36 and 0.1323 of its own shares, based on the share price of 76.67 U.S. dollars NYMEX Holdings Inc., at. Thus, the acquisition price amounted to 8.3 billion U.S. dollars. In the deciding vote voted 650 of the 816 members for the takeover by the CME Group, which required 75 % approval for the acquisition were achieved. For Class A shares CME Group offered $ 750,000. At the beginning of the takeover negotiations in January 2008 the share price of NYMEX Holdings Inc. was 119.22 U.S. dollars, which would have led to a takeover price of around 11 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2008, CME acquired the company Credit Market Analysis Ltd. (CMA Datavision ), a provider of data in the off-exchange trading provides.

At the beginning of 2010, the Dow Jones & Company and CME Group reported that the CME Group acquires 90 % stake in Dow Jones Indexes. CME Group also pays 607.5 million U.S. dollars to Dow Jones & Company. Part of the acquisition is the transfer of the Shares of CME Group in the area of ​​market data services to the new company. The merger was completed on March 18, 2010.

Following the realignment of the company McGraw -Hill McGraw -Hill negotiated with the CME Group through a joint venture of the S & P Indices and Dow Jones Indexes. In the joint venture McGraw- Hill would be about 75% and CME Group will hold approximately 25%. The former minority owner Dow Jones & Company would remain involved in the single digits.

In order to offer the Asian futures on precious metals and oil, the Tokyo Commodity Exchange ( TOCOM ) seek a contribution from the CME Group in the amount of 20 % on the TOCOM. First reports were early March 2012 by Reuters.

Investments

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