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The Chicago Board of Trade to this day remains the world's largest futures exchange, with markets not only in agricultural products but also in U.S. Treasury bond notes and other financial instruments, such as municipal bonds, and metals, among other products. And far from the days of the free lunch, traders now pay somewhat more for membership. In 1999, a full membership cost as much as $710,000.

 
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