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CBOT Traders Celebrate End Of Record Year In A Shower Of Confetti

Date 29/12/2006

 

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CBOT traders on the agricultural floor celebrate a record year in which total Exchange volume in 2006 tops 804 million contracts


Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) members celebrated their fifth consecutive record-setting year at the close on the final day of trading for 2006. The new all-time annual volume record surpassed 804 million contracts traded.  The Exchange exceeded the previous record set in 2005 of 674,651,393 contracts on November 3, 2006.

See a video clip  of CBOT traders on the agricultural trading floor celebrating a historic year for the Exchange as the closing bell signals the end of the last day of trading in 2006.