date:Oct 19, 2012
hile ICE bought the Winnipeg futures market in 2007 and launched a suite of little-traded grain futures at the start of this year.
Having missed out this summer on buying the London Metals Exchange and now pipped in Kansas City, MGEX is ICE's last chance to challenge the CME in U.S. agricultural markets, expanding beyond energy and soft commodities, traders say.
The speculation would be that ICE would be interested in Minneapolis, to get a foothold into the U.S. agricultural trade. That is the