Chicago’s fallen giants make progress of sorts

E-commerce – Redefining exchanges

NASDAQ let down by its own technology

NYSE members differ over demutualization

Try telling 150,00 people that many of them might soon be out of a job. That is the bottom line in Chicago, where the three derivatives exchanges – the Board of Trade, the Mercantile Exchange and the Board Options Exchange – are among the city’s major employers. Roughly 50,000 are jobs directly linked to the exchanges, the other 100,000 indirectly.