 Canada.com | Intercontinental Exchange Bids $9.9 Billion for CBOT (Update8) Bloomberg - By Nandini Sukumar and Elizabeth Stanton. March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the market for 45 percent of global oil futures trades, made an unsolicited $9.9 billion bid for the Chicago Board of Trade, seeking to thwart a planned ... ICE merger would 'protect and grow' CBOT precious metals You've got a bidding war now' for CBOT |