Mercantile Merger Creates Super Market

Chicago exchanges combine in $12B deal
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 10, 2007 5:03 AM CDT
Mercantile Merger Creates Super Market
Traders make offers in the ten year U.S. Treasury Notes futures pit Monday, July 9, 2007, at the Chicago Board of Trade. CBOT shareholders meet Monday and are expected to formally approve a buyout by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. after four months of back-and-forth bidding between the Merc...   (Associated Press)

Chicago's Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange—bitter rivals for decades—will merge to form the world's largest derivatives market in a deal worth close to $12 billion, the Chicago Tribune reports. The merger ends months of jockeying and speculation as another suitor, Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange, failed to mount a competitive bid.

The final tallies of a vote on the deal by Board of Trade shareholders won't be available for days but the arrangement is expected to be approved by an overwhelming majority. The mammoth new exchange will likely soon be looking to acquire even more exchanges, one analyst predicted. (More Chicago Board of Trade stories.)

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