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THE
CME, THE MEDIA AND ME
A
Retrospective on How the Modern Merc Evolved!
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Volume
1 - January 1967 – December 1985
Volume
2 - January 1986 – December 1989
Volume
3 - January 1990 – January 1994
Volume
4 - March 1994 – December 1999
Volume
5 - January 2000 - October 2006
Volume
6 - December 2006 - June 2008
Volume
1 - January 1967 – December 1985
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Date
Article / Title
January 9, 1967
Big Bacon and Egg Man
Source: Chicago Sun - Times
January 16,
1969 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Picks Melamed as Chairman
Source: The Wall Street Journal
January 16,
1969 Melamed Named CME Chairman
Source: Chicago’s American
January 17,
1969 MercEX Elects Leo Melamed – New Mercantile Officers
Source: The Journal of Commerce
January 20,
1969 Melamed to Head Board at Mercantile
Source: Chicago Tribune
February, 1969
Chairman relates Problems, Hopes for Year Ahead
Source: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Newsletter
March 19, 1969
Merc Has Look of Youth at 50
Source: Chicago’s American
May 12, 1969
Where Pork Bellies are King, Commodity Exchange Woos Investors
Source: The National Observer
November 7,
1968 Chicago Mercantile Exchange to Seek Larger Facilities
Source: Chicago’s American
November 13,
1969 Dan Coughlin – Wanted: More Speculators
Source: Post-Intelligencer Business
November 14,
1969 The Wild World of Commodities: Futures Trading Not a Crap Game
Source: Oregon Journal – Northwest Business
November
17, 1969 Portrait of a Speculator: Commodities Trading Called
Last Frontier
Source: The Dallas Morning News – Business
November 19,
1969 No Cinch in Commodities
Source: Pittsburg Gazette – Business Today
December 1,
1969 Central Exchange Idea Lauded
Source: Chicago Today Finance – Business Focus
January 14,
1970 Leo Melamed Re-Elected to Mercantile Post
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 14,
1970 Merc re-elects Leo Melamed
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
January 29,
1970 Leo Melamed re-elected by acclamation
Source: Pickwick Newspapers
March 2, 1970
Melamed Borrows $3000 to get on Merc Floor, Now He Runs It
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 19, 1970
Merc to occupy new site in ’72
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
August 22, 1970 Commodities require Love
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
November, 1970 Chicago’s “Merc” and its Now Generation
Commerce
December 6, 1970 Leo Melamed, Chairman of the Board, Chicago Mercantile
Exchange
Chicago Tribune Magazine
January 12, 1971 Melamed elected to 3rd term
Chicago Tribune People
January 12, 1971 Melamed reelected to C.M.E.
Chicago Today Finance
January 13, 1971 Merc re-elects Melamed
Chicago Sun-Times
March 1971 Melamed Honored by Alma Mater
CME Newsletter
March 1971 1971 Officers – Melamed Gets Third Term
CME Newsletter
July 22, 1971 Mercantile Picks Advisory Unit
Chicago Tribune
November 22, 1971 Melamed Changes Mercantile Course
Chicago Tribune
November 30, 1971 Leo Melamed to Retire in December
The Journal of Commerce
December 20, 1971 Plan Money Futures Mart Here
Chicago Daily News Business & Finance
December 20, 1971 Plan Currency Mart Here
Chicago Today Finance
December 20, 1971 Foreign Currency Futures Planned
West Palm Beach, Florida
December 21, 1971 C.M.E. to Start Foreign Money Futures Trade
Chicago Tribune
December 21, 1971 Merc here maps futures mart on foreign exchange.
Chicago Sun-Times
December 21, 1971 Int’l Monetary System Prompts CME to Develop
Foreign Currency Trade
The Journal of Commerce
December, 1971 CME egg pricing and marketing study committee organized
Poultry Tribune
January 2, 1972 Right decisions made Mercantile chief
Lerner Newspapers
January, 1972
Foreign Currency Futures Market
Investment Dealers’ Digest
January 4, 1972
Melamed in Active Leadership of C.M.E. Direction, Expansion
The Southwestern Miller
January 6, 1972
Right decisions make Merc Chief - Immigrant builds career on pork
bellies.
Lerner-Life Newspapers
January 15,
1972 The Money Men - A Lover, not a Fighter
Forbes
May 16, 1972
Mercantile Opens Money Trade
Chicago Daily News Business & Finance
May 16, 1972
In Hollywood Style - Money Mart Opens
Chicago Today Finance
November 27,
1972 Merc Rings Bell
Chicago Today
November 28,
1972 Ring in New Merc
Sun-Times Business News
November 18,
1972 10, 9, 8,…Bong Trade Starts - C.M.E. is in New Home
Chicago Tribune
December 10,
1972 Officials Bullish About Money Market
Milwaukee Journal Business News
Winter 1972-73
Weinberg, Melamed Re-elected
CME Newsletter
Winter 1972-73
Weinberg, Melamed Named to Head Exchange and Monetary Market in
1973
CME Newsletter
April 29, 1973
The Fallacy of Price Controls for Food
The New York Times - Point of View
June 1, 1973
Faces Behind the Figures “…a Lot To Learn”
Forbes
September 2,
1973 Will the Dollar Ever Come Back?
Chicago Sun-Times
October, 1973
Commodity Markets: An Integral Part of Our Free Market System
Commerce
February 24,
1974 Cash - The International Monetary Market – Chicago plungers
in the world game
The Chicago Sun-Times Magazine - Midwest
May 14, 1974 Melamed in Action
Chicago Daily News
January 1, 1975 Leo Melamed Chairman of the Board IMM to Speak
at January 14th Meeting
Newsletter - Harvard Business School Club of Chicago
August 14, 1975 Futures Need Rule Hit By Merc Unit’s Chief
Business and Finance World of Money
January 14, 1976 Melamed New Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chairman
Reuter - 0940
January 14, 1976 Leo Melamed Elected CME Board Chairman
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial
January 14, 1976 Who’s News - Melamed Elected Chairman
The Wall Street Journal
March 15, 1976 The Markets - Commodity Trading From Corn to Call
Options
Business Week
July 1976 The Wave of the Futures - Chicago’s Innovative exchanges
have gone way beyond soybeans and pork bellies. Wall Street’s soft
underbelly may be next
Chicago
November 10, 1976 The man behind the CME boom growth.
Chicago Tribune
November 18, 1976 Melamed to quit as Merc Chief
Chicago Daily News
November 19, 1976 Melamed won’t run
Chicago Tribune
February 5, 1978 The Commodity Futures Man
The New York Times - Point of View
January 13, 1980 Melamed opens sister office of CME in London
Sunday Telegraph
January 13, 1980 Dicing with the future in francs or frozen pork
Money and Investment
September 15, 1980 Leo Melamed: Mercantile’s feisty maven expands
guardian role
Crain’s Chicago Business
November 7, 1980 The growth of financial futures
Taken from Hong Kong Standard
February 22,
1982 Futures Frenzy - Chicago’ Traders Take Big Lead in Devising
Ways to Build Markets
The Wall Street Journal
March 29, 1982
Vanguard of the Futures That’s Where Leo Melamed Has Put the Chicago
Merc
Barron’s
May 16, 1982
Helped transform futures – Melamed Merc’s wizard of exotic.
Chicago Tribune
September 13,
1982 A founding father of the Chicago centre and a comparative
newcomer in London talk to William Hall about Liffe – Leo Melamed
– Development of a good floor crowd is needed
Financial Times
September 15,
1982 Ten Years to Learn to Manage Risk in the Futures Market –
How Chicago came of age.
UK News – Financial Times
March, 1983
Ready or not, here they come. While still in their infancy, financial
futures are already affecting every aspect of work capital markets.
What will they be like when they grow up?
Institutional Investor
June, 1983 Whirlwind
CBOE-CME romance puts new slant on options race.
Commodities Magazine of Futures Trading
November 29,
1983 Merc rings in its new headquarters
Chicago Sun-Times Business
December, 1983
Exchanges: Building for the future – Gearing up for new business
Futures – The magazine of commodities & options
March 5, 1984
Futures Industry Is Seen Standing on Doorstep of Expansionary
Era
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial
November 9,
1984 Melamed cutting back role at Merc.
Chicago Sun-Times
December 3,
1984 Melamed, “Godfather” at Chicago Merc, To Devote Time to Private
Firm, Writing
The Wall Street Journal
January, 1985
What 60 leaders predict for the last half of the 1980’s – Best
Trades in 1985 – What Leo Melamed expects.
Futures – The magazine of commodities & options
July 15, 1985
Banks have a place in futures markets
Asian Finance – Hong Kong
September 3,
1985 Chicago babe hits the big time
The Daily Telegraph
September 5,
1985 Melamed takes new Merc Post
Chicago Tribune – Business
October, 1985
An Interview with Leo Melamed – Founder of the International Monetary
Market
Euro Money
November, 1985
How midsized brokerage firms aim for industry niches
Futures Magazine
December, 1985
Futures, the Coveted Scapegoat
Futures Industry Association Monthly Newsletter
December 21,
1985 The Fed Study on Futures and Options By Leo Melamed Special
Counsel to Chicago Mercantile Exchange
National Journal – The Weekly on Politics and Government
Volume
2 - January 1986 – December 1989
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Article / Title
January 20,
1986 The man who rocked money world
Source: The Globe and Mail
March 2, 1986
Rise of the Pork-Belly Crapshooters
Source: The Sunday Times
April 24, 1986
Fixed-Exchange Foolishness
Source: The Wall Street Journal
July, 1986 Leo
Melamed
Source: Intermarket
August, 1986
Flexing Muscles
Source: Trade Winds
September 29,
1986 How Chicago Zaps Wall Street
Source: International Business Week
September, 1986
The revolution and the evolution of the IMM, The First 15 Years
Source: CME 1986 Annual Report - IMM 15 Year Anniversary Issue
March 16, 1986
The Merc Starts to Clean up its Pit
Source: Business Week
May 3, 1987
Friedman and Melamed: godfathers to night trade
Source: Chicago Sun Times
June , 1987
Fifteen Years Later
Source: Intermarket
June, 1987 The
Way It Was An Oral History - -Leo Melamed
Source: Institutional Investor
July 1, 1987
Master of the Chicago Merc
Source: Business Month
October 28,
1987 Top Merc Officials Defend Stock Futures
Source: Market Turmoil
November, 1987
Melamed lifts off to the Stars
Source: Futures
November 3,
1987 Chicago’s Merc Offers No Meltdown Mea Culpas
Source: The Wall Street Journal
November 5,
1987 Post-Crash Damage Control at the Merc
Source: The Wall Street Journal
November/December
1987 Only The Market Knows
Source: Chicago Times
December 21,
1987 Putting a cap on 1987: Name that Stadium
Source: Crain’s Chicago Business
January 4 1988
Cutting out for space reasons
Source: Fortune
January 18,
1988 Wild Bears on the Loose
Source: Time
1988 Special
Issue – Leo Melamed
Source: Profiles Futures Magazine
January , 1988
Creating a Brave New World
Source: Lifestyle
February 1,
1988 The battle over Market Reform
Source: Fortune
February 29,
1988 Merc official lets fly against some of his favorite targets
Source: Chicago Sun Times
April 1988 Master
of the Chicago Merc
Source: Bialystoker Stimme
June 6, 1988
I’m alive! That entitles me to a commercial motivation
Source: Crain’s Chicago Business
June 11, 1988
Screen Games
Source: The Economist
Summer, 1988
Going Global with PMT
Source: Global Investment Management
July/August,
1988 Leo Melamed: The Painful Truth
Source: The International Economy
July/August,
1988 Faces?
Source: Business Month
October, 1988
Black Monday: What we know a year after the fact.
Source: Chicago Enterprize
October 2, 1988
Oct. 19 – AND COUNTING A Look at the Lessons Learned
Source: New York Times
October 16,
1988 Stock Futures Market is Flexing Its Muscle. Since Oct. 19,
Merc Has Fought Reform
Source: The Washington Post
November, 1988
Futures father: Leo Melamed put foreign currencies on a level
with pork bellies.
Source: Business – Commercial Principals
November 11,
1988 Melamed backs automation
Source: Chicago Tribune
November, 1988
Fighting for the Futures.
Source: University of Illinois Chicagoan
December 15,
1988 Science fiction by Leo Melamed is uniquely believable and
thoughtful
Source: Sentinel
December 19,
1988 Why Leo’s worth every penny of the $500,000
Source: Chicago Sun Times
1988 Dear Mr.
President
Source: Institutional Investor
1989 Leo Melamed
Source: Haute Finance
January 4, 1989
89 People to Watch
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 26,
1989 Chicago Exchange appoints a Panel to Press Reforms – New
Trading Rules Seen
Source: The New York Times
January 26,
1989 Merc puts system “under microscope”
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 27,
1989 Chicago Merc Rushes to Protect Expansion Amid U. S. Inquiry
Source: Wall Street Journal
January 29,
1989 Probe jars city’s financial center status
Source: Chicago Tribune
1989 Executives
To Watch – Leo Melamed
Source: Business Week Special Edition
February, 1989
The computer that ate Chicago
Source: Institutional Investor
February 6,
1989 A Bid to Salvage a Go-Go Legacy
Source: Time
February 17,
1989 Mercantile Exchange polices itself
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 27, 1989
C-Span’s Chicago Profile Guest – Leo Melamed
Source: C-Span
April, 1989
The real reason Leo Melamed hooked up with Matif
Source: Institutional Investor
April 26, 1989
The Merc fights for self-regulation
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 8, 1989
Will the Merc Boss Make the Best of a Mess
Source: The National Law Journal
May 11, 1989
Merc’s Melamed defends self-regulation
Source: Chicago Sun Times
May 17, 1989
Futures Markets Play Key Role In U. S. Economy, Melamed Says
Source: Investors Daily
August 27, 1989
Different Products Need Different Rules
Source: The New York Times
October 23,
1989 Wacker Drive becoming city’s new La Salle Street
Source: Chicago Tribune
November, 1989
Leo Melamed - Globex
Source: La Synthese Financiere
December 19,
1989 Melamed future to be minus 1 role
Source: Chicago Tribune
December 29,
1989 Melamed quits as NFA Chief
Source: Chicago Sun Times
December, 1989
Leaders of the Leaders
Source: Futures
December, 1989
Faces of the ’80s
Source: Institutional Investor
December 31,
1989 To those who left their mark on the ’80s
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Volume
3 - January 1990 – January 1994
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Article / Title
January 1 1990 Six Who Made The Headlines in America and Abroad
Source: The New York Times
March 6, 1990 Merc’s Melamed to retire by year’s end
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 6, 1990 Melamed Leaving as Head of Chicago Merc.
Source: The New York Times
March 6, 1990 Leo’s mighty roar heard loud and clear
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
March 6, 1990 Melamed quits – will leave Merc posts at year
end
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
March 6, 1990 Melamed leaving CME
Source: USA Today
March 6, 1990 People – Leo Melamed
Source: The Washington Post
March 6, 1990 Leo Melamed to Resign His Chicago Merc Posts
Source: Business News Digest
March 6, 1990 Markets – Leo Melamed Leaving
Source: Business Digest
March 6, 1990 Melamed Says He’ll Resign Chicago Merc’s Top Posts
Source: The Wall Street Journal
March 7, 1990 Melamed can speak own strengths
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 7, 1990 “I am very, very pleased”
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
March 7, 1990 Leo Melamed’s Pending Departure Leaves The Merc
Without a Titan
Source: Investor’s Daily
March 7, 1990 Melamed Resignation Seen as Big Loss to Futures
Industry
Source: Journal of Commerce
March 7, 1990 For futures sector, talk of era’s end
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 7, 1990 Leo Melamed’s decision
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
March 7, 1990 Melamed leaves power vacuum
Source: Financial Times
March 8, 1990 Chicago’s Merc chief hands in his notice
Source: The Australian Financial Review
March 9, 1990 Vintage Leo – Praises Industry
Source: The Journal of Commerce and Commercial
March 10, 1990 Leo to retire
Source: The Economist
March 11, 1990 A future after futures – Merc chief trades job
for private life.
Source: Houston Chronicle
March 12, 1990 Leo Melamed: One for the history books
Source: Crain’s
March 12 - 18, 1990 What to expect from Melamed – less Merc
Source: Crain’s
March 12, 1990 Exchanges Chairman surprises futures industry
with retirement news
Source: Barron’s
March 12, 1990 Melamed Quits
Source: Western Livestock Journal
March 19, 1990 Futures pioneer trades up, out
Source: Sun Sentinel
March 19, 1990 Melamed to retire from CME post after two decades
Source: Feedstuffs
March 19, 1990 Don’t forget Leo Melamed’s Lessons
Source: Business Week
March 19, 1990 The Merc: Stormy Seas Ahead, and the Captain
is Disembarking
Source: Business Week
March 23, 1990 Leo Melamed, father of financial futures
Source: Chicago Tribune
April 1990 Coming soon: The world according to Leo Melamed
Source: Institutional Investor
April 1, 1990 Turning butter and eggs into an international
omelet
Source: Chicago Tribune Magazine
April 24, 1990 Melamed Predicts Japan Will Allow Globex Terminals
Source: Journal of Commerce
April 1990 Melamed looking to start new chapter
Source: Futures
April 1990 Melamed Era Ends
Source: Open Outcry
May 31, 1990 Melamed, Chapman join SEC panel on E. Europe
Source: Chicago Tribune
September 26, 1990 Melamed’s trade records subpoenaed
Source: Chicago Sun-TImes
November 3, 1990 US markets to aid Soviets
Source: South China Morning Post
1990 Leo Melamed
Source: Futures and Options Economy
November, 1990 Telecommunications, markets: Shaping the world
in the 1990s
Source: Futures – The magazine of commodities & options
November
9, 1990 Melamed goes to Moscow to see future, but finds chaos
Source: Chicago Tribune
November 12, 1990 Technology shakes futures – US futures markets
confronting globalization
Source: Pension & Investments
December, 1990 Faces – Leo Melamed
Source: Chicago
January, 1991 Changing of the Guard
Source: Futures and Options World
January 18, 1991 Melamed to return attention to his firm
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 30, 1991 Merc names chairman emeritus
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
January 30, 1991 Leo Melamed was named to newly created position
of Chairman Emeritus
Source: Wall Street Journal
January 30, 1991 Melamed gets Merc title
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 30, 1991 Melamed Remains a Vocal Force Despite Departure
From the CME
Source: Journal of Commerce
February 21, 1991 Japan bank to buy majority stake in Melamed
Firm
Source: Chicago Tribune
February 21, 1991 Merc’s Melamed sells clearing firm to big
Japanese bank
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
February
21, 1991 Leo Melamed Agrees to Sell Majority Stake in Company
Source: Wall Street Journal
March, 1991 Leo Melamed in perpetual motion
Source: Institutional Investor
March, 1991 Globex Countdown
Source: Euro Money
May 27, 1991 Back to the futures
Source: Forbes
May 28, 1991 Tokyo Exchange Will Join Globex, Retired Merc Chairman
Predicts
Source: Journal of Commerce
May 31, 1991 Melamed on call for 911 Overhaul
Source: Chicago Tribune
August 18, 1991 Clearing Issue Revamps Panel of Merc, CBOT
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
August 12-18, 1991 After the Merc, Leo as Manager
Source: Crain’s
September 12, 1991 Futures Industry Riding High-Tech Wave, Melamed
Says
Source: Chicago Tribune
September 16, 1991 Melamed Credits Technology for Futures Success
Source: Journal of Commerce
October, 1991 The Nerve to Imagine
Source: Wall Street Computer Review
January 20, 1992 Still the wave of the futures – Merc financial
contracts going strong after 20 years
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 22, 1992 The Lords of Trade
Source: Chicago Tribune
May, 1992 The day the IMM launched financial futures trading
Source: Futures
May 15, 1992 Exchanges trying to work through Globex squabble
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 15, 1992 Globex chief still in charge despite ruckus
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
June 22, 1992 Globex Stirs Little Blood
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
June 25, 1992 The Globex after-hours trading system starts today,
The futures comes into focus on screen
Source: Financial Times
June 26, 1992 Globex Takes Off – A smooth start after long countdown
for overnight trading system
Source: Chicago Tribune
June 28, 1992 Now Mr. Melamed’s Dream is a Night and Day Reality
Source: The New York Times
November 29, 1992 Chicago’s Exchanges Look Toward an Electronic
Salvation
Source: The New York Times
December, 1992 You can’t really assess Globex after only a few
months. We simply wanted to prove its capacity early on
Source: Risk
January 11, 1993 Markets, speculation and memory
Futures & Options
February 8, 1993 High-level feud boiling over at the Merc.
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 31, 1993 Melamed stepping down as chairman of Globex
Source: Chicago Tribune
April 5, 1993 Globex starts heating up – Melamed departs as
volume begins to increase
Source: Crains
May 12, 1993 OK for Melamed’s deal with Japanese
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 24, 1993 Melamed on Stocks: “The End of the World is Coming”
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
May 29, 1993 Melamed departs Globex leadership
Source: Chicago Tribune
June, 1993 I prefer a Single International System to a Multitude
of Mutual Off-Sets
Source: Haute Finance
June 21, 1993 The Future of Electronic Trading
Source: Information Week
June 28, 1993 Books – Leo Melamed on the Markets
Source: Business Week
September, 1993 If you’ve got it, flaunt it…
Source: Futures & Options World
November 4, 1993 A twist to Futures rivalry – Melamed declines
CBOT offer to run for its board
Source: Chicago Tribune
January, 1994 Value-added tracts – Melamed: happy to build Sakura
a global FCM
Source: Futures & Options World
January 24, 1994 New strategy paying off for post – Merc Melamed
Source: Chicago Tribune
Volume
4 - March 1994 – December 1999
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Article / Title
March 7, 1994 In Defense of Derivatives
Source: Barron’s
April 12, 1994 Melamed Sees Nothing Illegal
Source: Chicago Sun Times
May 25, 1994 Melamed planning to write memoirs.
Source: Chicago Tribune
July 4, 1994 How Chicago Lost the Future
Source: Newsweek
September, 1994 North Shore Hall of Fame
Source: North Shore
September 30, 1994 Melamed fights Merc consolidation
Source: Chicago Tribune
October 30, 1994 Melamed’s back; seat plan defeated
Source: Chicago Tribune
1994 Mayor asked - but what will it do for Chicago
Source: Great Chicago Stories
December, 1994 A fine white line.
Source: Futures & Options World
November/December, 1994 Keeping Risk on Track.
Source: Futures Industry
March 6, 1995 Barings collapse stirs interest of investor Melamed.
Source: Chicago Tribune
September 20, 1995 Melamed causes stir with sale of seat on
monetary market
Source: Chicago Tribune
November/December, 1995 The History Man.
Source: Clearing & Settlement
January, 1996 Dance hall daze.
Source: Futures & Options World
January 15, 1996 A merged future for two exchanges?
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 26, 1996 On the Brink - Merc Boss Recalls - Black Monday.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
June, 1996 Melamed the lawgiver.
Source: Futures & Options World
June 2, 1996 Melamed talks about the stock market and the law
of gravity.
Source: Chicago Tribune
July 1, 1996 Remembrances, and more, of a futures reformer,
and more.
Source: Chicago Tribune
July 22, 1996 The man who made futures a global force.
Source: Pensions & Investments
August 16, 1996 Founding father with messianic zeal.
Source: Financial Times
September 22, 1996 Book Review - Trading Places - Leo Melamed
rose to the top of the commodities game.
Source: The New York Times
Winter, 1996 Leo Melamed: Mission Possible
Source: Lifestyles
November, 1996 Merc makers' book captures industry history.
Source: Futures
January 20, 1997 Merc Vote Shakes up Exchange.
Source: Crain's
1997 I won! I won! Sandner.
Source: Crain's
January 23, 1997 Melamed returns to power at the Merc.
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 1997 Thinking about a fling in the Commodities Market.
Source: Forbes Magazine
January 27, 1997 For the Record.
Source: Crain's
January 26, 1997 Leo's Second Coming - Election sets Merc sailing
to Byzantium, but who's captain?
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 28, 1997 Discord at the top hits Merc.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Spring, 1997 Leo Melamed recalls his academic career at The
John Marshall Law School.
Source: John Marshall Law School
February 2, 1997 Merc's Take 2.
Source: Chicago Tribune
February 10, 1997 Titan returns to shake up CME's Board.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
March, 1997 Melamed to advise CME.
Source: Futures
March 2, 1997 Visas for life - saved thousands.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
March, 1997 How Leo Melamed, Myron Scholes, Richard Sandor and
Allen Wheat helped create the derivatives market - and turned
the financial world upside down.
Source: Derivatives Strategy
March, 1997 The Father of Financial Futures.
Source: Derivatives Strategy
March 20, 1997 Anonymous letter riles Merc adviser Melamed.
Source: Chicago Tribune
August 4, 1997 Hot Market Tip: Merc Vet Buys New shorts.
Source: Futures – Crain's
November
30, 1997 Merc ballot not last word on power at the exchange.
Source: Chicago Tribune
January 12, 1998 Merc's board election a test of Melamed's strength,
clout.
Source: Crain's
January 28, 1998 Leo Melamed honored - Weizmann Institute of
Science dinner.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
April 17, 1998 Commodities must share trading platform: CME
chairman emeritus.
Source: The Financial Express
April 16, 1998 Times ripe for India to enter futures league:
Melamed.
Source: The Economic Times
August 3, 1998 Elite Panel Urges Chicago Exchanges to Ramp up
in Electronic Trading.
Source: Derivatives Week
August 5, 1998 Rallying around flag of calm.
Source: Chicago Tribune
October
8, 1998 Leo Melamed reads from "Visas for Life" at
the ceremony Sunday honoring Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara.
“Righteous" man honored for lives saved in WWII.
Source: Glencoe News
October
22, 1998 Sage of the Merc - Exchange's "godfather" looks
at today's markets.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Winter, 1998 Pioneers of the Time.
Source: John Marshall Law School
March, 1999 Movers and Shakers.
Source: Chicago Magazine
April 19, 1999 Chicago and the American Century - Business's
Top Ten.
Source: Chicago Tribune
June 18, 1999 Bullish on Memory.
Source: The New York Jewish Week
November, 1999 Melamed Says Reform Shad-Johnson Now.
Source: Derivatives Strategy
December, 1999 A history rich with character and motion.
Source: Futures
December, 1999 12 Minds that make the market. The trillion-dollar
genie - Leo Melamed.
Source: Bloomberg
December, 1999 The top 10 financial technology innovators of
the decade.
Source: Wall Street & Technology
Fall, 1999 The innovators - Leo Melamed.
Source: Global Custodian
Volume
5 - January 2000 - October 2006
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Article / Title
December 20, 1999 Stormy year for traders
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
January 2000 On the Alliance of Exchanges
Source: The Traders' Magazine
January 6, 2000 Leo Melamed and Fr. Andrew Greeley speak at
commencement on May 13
Source: The Chicago Jewish News
June 5, 2000 To save exchanges' future, regulatory reform needed.
Source: Crain's Chicago
July 1, 2000 Get ready for single - stock futures
Source: Derivatives Strategy
August 2, 2000 Major Merc figure's brokerage gets sold.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
September 1, 2000 Leo Melamed, a 1955 alumnus
Source: The John Marshall Law School
August 2, 2000 Sakura Dellsher closes; Melamed was founder
Source: Chicago Tribune
September, 2000 Leo in New House
Source: Futures
October 26, 2000 Hillary's Bull Market
Source: Wall Street Journal
December 19, 2000 A whole new ballgame for futures investing
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
February 17, 2002 Diversions - Leo Melamed
Source: Chicago Tribune Magazine
March 11, 2002 CME old guard threatens leadership
Source: Futures & Options Week
March 25, 2002 Editorial - Points of view
Source: Futures & Options Week
October 28, 2002 Terry Savage talks money with Leo Melamed
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Q4, 2002 Futures Exchanges in a Changed Work Order
Source: Digital FX
2003 Spotlight China
Source: Unknown
February 10, 2003 They would be what you would call distant
cousins
Source: Crain's Chicago
June 2, 2003 Trading Places
Source: Crain's Chicago
June, 2003 Innovation Deserves More than 15 Minutes of Fame
Source: SFO Magazine
October 20, 2003 Everything's Up-To-Date
Source: Barron's
October 27, 2003 Faces of Change
Source: Pensions & Investments
November, 2003 The Formidable Five
Source: Futures Industry Association Outlook
November 2, 2003 Leo Melamed Born: Bialystok
Source: Washington Post
June 1, 2004 Sci-Fi Futures
Source: Financial Times
June 14, 2004 Innovations Nations
Source: Futures and Options Week
July 21, 2004 The Most Successful Futures Industry Salesman
Source: John Lothian Newsletter
July, 2004 Futures and Financial Derivatives
Source: Shanghai Futures Exchange
September, 2004 CME: A Working Model
Source: Profit & Loss
December, 2004 Up From the Pits
Source: Institutional Investor
December 6, 2004 Melamed sells about 40% of CME stk.
Source: Crain's Chicago Business
July 4,2005 Melamed tells De Paul graduates they're lucky to
be starting out in America
Source: Chicago Sun Times
September 12, 2005 Melamed, Sandner get contracts
Source: Crain's Chicago Business
October/November, 2005 One on One Interview - Leo Melamed
Source: Financial Engineering News
December, 2005 CME Helping Unlock the Power of China's Markets
Source: CME Magazine
January 2006 CME
Source: FOW
March/April, 2006 The Future of Futures In the Twenty-First
Century
Source: Futures Industry Association Outlook
April, 2006 Leo Melamed
Source: The Beijing News
April, 2006 Exchange of Documents Ceremony of the International
Monetary Products Trading Cooperation agreement between CFETS
and CME held in Shanghai.
Source: China Money
April, 2006 Father of Futures Sees China's Future
Source: South China Morning Post
April, 2006 Leo Melamed
Source: Alibaba.com.cn
April, 2006 Honoring Financial Innovation
Source: FOW
May 28, 2006 Melamed still nudging Merc into the faster lane
Source: Chicago Tribune
June/July 2006 Father Figure
Source: Trader Daily
July 2006 Leo Melamed - Founding Father of Financial Futures
Market
Source: Modern Bankers
October 17, 2006 Reflections on the Merc-CBOT Merger
Source: Business Week
October 17, 2006 Futures giants to merge - Merc to acquire Board
of Trade; new exchange will dwarf rivals
Source: Chicago Tribune
October 17, 2006 Merc, CBOT rich with history
Source: Chicago Tribune
October 18, 2006 Chicago's godfather gets his way
Source: Financial Times
October 18, 2006 Deal unites futures foes
Source: Chicago Tribune
October 18, 2006 Delivering on a dream - Merger secures Chicago's
place as a worldwide trading center
Source: Chicago Tribune
October
18, 2006 Exchanging Vows - CBOT says "I do" to
$8 billion merger offer from Merc
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
October 19, 2006 Two Men - Soft Spoken CEO and an Exchange Veteran
- Savor Chicago Merc's Triumph
Source: The Wall Street Journal
October 22, 2006 Say what? Quote from the week's newsmakers
Source: Chicago Tribune
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Vol. 6
Date
Article / Title
December 25, 2006 The Man Who Saw the Futures
Source: Fortune
May 3, 2007 Opinion, The American Century
Source: Wall Street
Journal
July 10, 2007 The Historic Merc-Board of Trade Deal – City “On
the World Stage”
Source: Chicago Tribune
October,
2007 Fifteen Minutes to 25 Years – CME’s flagship S&P
Futures Contract
Source: FOW The Global Derivatives Magazine
October, 2007 Black Monday: The Oral History
Source: Trader Monthly
Special Issue, 2007 Celebrating 35 Years – Agents of Change
Source: Futures
March 1, 2008 Back to the Futures
Source: Futures
March,
2008 Q & A – Lunch with the Merc’s Leo Melamed On
the Economy and Politics
Source: Business Week
April 5, 2008 Editorials – Shaking Off The Rust
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2008 A Farewell to Arms Waving at the Merc
Source: Chicago Tribune
June, 2008 It is About the Model, Sir – Remarks on Regulatory
Reform
Source: Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine
June 10, 2008 Futures Guru Upbeat on China
Source: Business Roundup
June 27, 2008 Melamed Slams Regulatory Efforts to Curb Speculative
Oil Trading
Source: Futures and Options Week
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