The bound folders lie side-by-side on a shelf in the research department of the Chicago Board of Trade. In the binders are proposed futures contracts. Bland reading, often quasi-legal boilerplate. But buried in the economic justifications, contract specifications and other mundane chapters, there may be the gleam of a nugget to dazzle and delight the world’s financial community.
If this data should yield such treasure, it could mean gaining near total control of a product worth millions of dollars annually in clearing fees.
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