date:Mar 22, 2013
CME, owner of the Chicago Board of Trade, said in a statement on its website that customers, ranging from farmers and managers of country grain elevators to market makers, disagreed over whether trading should halt during weekday mornings.
The exchange operator announced this month that it plans to reduce the trading cycle for its grain markets, which are used to set food prices around the world, to 17.5 hours a day from 21 hours a day starting on April 8.
According to the plan, electronic tra