The Chicago Board of Trade began tr...

The Chicago Board of Trade began trading agricultural to comes electronically during daytime trading hours Tuesday, saying the put in motion will increase access to its outcomes and create more trading opportunities.

Contracts for corn, soybeans and wheat hereafters among others, now will be bought and sold the couple electronically and in open-outcry trading during the day.

The exchange's agricultural productions which account for about 20 percent of its total compass previously traded electronically only after hours.

A total of 43911 ag contracts traded electronically during the initial day Tuesday, spokeswoman Jennifer cower said.

The CBOT was the last of Chicago's nine exchanges to stop requiring customers to use the floor for daytime trading of major contracts.

The CBOT first enlargeed the electronic trading hours of its southern American soybean futures contract and ethanol yet to bes contracts in May.

The electronic trading hours for the exchange's agricultural what may occur hereafters complex are during daytime trading from 9:30 a.m.-1:15 pm Chicago time and then from 6:30 pm to 6:00 a.m.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange also presents daytime electronic trading of its agricultural contracts.

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