CBOT Grain Futures Only Moving To 21 Hour Trade Day

In response to "significant feedback" from producers, ranchers, commercial traders, and end-users, the CME group has scrapped plans to go to a 22 hour trade day. Their new plan to remain competitive with the ICE exchange's CBOT based contracts is a 21 hour trade day with a market close between 2:00PM and 5:00PM CST.

(full text of the announcement here)

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