International Futures Exchange Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME): The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world to buy and sell futures and futures option contracts. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange provides investors with many financial and agricultural transactions. Since the establishment of 1898, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has continuously provided the market with risk management tools to protect investors from the risks brought about by the price changes of financial products and tangible goods, and to give them opportunities to profit from trading. From June 5438 to February 2002, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holding Company was officially listed on the new york Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange changed from a non-profit organization with membership to a profit-making company.