The Chicago Board of Trade offers an ideal setting for live financial market updates from traders and economists who offer expert insight on a variety of topics.  Throughout its 158-year history, the CBOT has maintained its role as a critical cog within the global economy.  Today, the Exchange is one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the world, where market participants trade an average of more than 3 million futures and options contracts each day.

The CBOT, broadcast home to CNBC personality Rick Santelli and Bloomberg Television’s Lisa Leiter, offers your program an ideal setting for live financial market updates from traders and economists who offer expert insight on a variety of topics.  The Exchange is also a popular destination for distinguished Chicago visitors.  In 2006 alone, the Exchange hosted U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Treasury Secretaries John Snow and Henry Paulson, as well as several foreign dignitaries and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.

If you are a television journalist working on a financial markets story – or simply a story with a Chicago angle and you need a properly equipped broadcast facility – contact the Chicago Board of Trade Communications team at (312) 435-3620.