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Jobs up by 157k in July; unemployment rate edges down to 3.9%

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August 3, 2018
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 157,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in health care and social assistance.

US adds 313k jobs in February, unemployment rate unchanged

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March 9, 2018
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 313,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on March 9. Employment rose in construction, retail trade, professional and business services, manufacturing, financial activities, and mining.

CME Group reached record average daily volume in 2017

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January 3, 2018
CME Group, a diverse derivatives marketplace, announced 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 16.3 million contracts, up 4% from 2016. During 2017, there were 34 trading days above 20 million contracts, up from 32 days in 2016, despite significantly lower volatility.

OTC Global Holdings Brokers first CME Bitcoin Futures Block

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December 26, 2017
Choice! Natural Gas, a portfolio company of leading independent interdealer broker OTC Global Holdings, announced it brokered the first CME Bitcoin Futures Block trade on Dec. 22, 2017.

TradeStation to support trading of CME Group Bitcoin futures on launch

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December 18, 2017

TradeStation, a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, today announced

CFTC launches virtual currency resource web page

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December 15, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched a virtual currency resource Web page, cftc.gov/bitcoin.

CFTC adds 21 names to its list of foreign entities

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December 15, 2017

As part of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) ongoing efforts to help protect Americans from fraud, today the CFTC ad

XBT first day trading close; more than 4,000 contracts

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December 12, 2017
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today announced Cboe bitcoin futures (XBT) traded a reported 4,127 contracts in their first day of trading.

CFTC statement on self-certification of Bitcoin products by CME, CFE and Cantor Exchange

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December 1, 2017
Today, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products, and the Cantor Exchange (Cantor) self-certified a new contract for bitcoin binary options.

CME Group self-certifies Bitcoin futures to launch Dec. 18

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December 1, 2017
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it has self-certified the initial listing of its Bitcoin futures contract to launch Monday, December 18, 2017.