Article: CME cleared to buy NYMEX.(NewsWatch)(CME Group Inc. acquired New York Mercantile Exchange Inc.)(Brief article)

The U.S. Department of Justice last week cleared CME Group Inc. to acquire NYMEX Holdings Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $13.3 billion. The acquisition would expand CME--which operates the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange and trades corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, dairy and swine futures and options--into energy, precious metals and "soft" agricultural commodities such as cocoa, ...

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