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Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage With Smooth CME Debut

  • Trading follows similar offering by Cboe exchange a week ago
  • CME futures off to faster start as underlying bitcoin climbs
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Cboe vs. CME: Bob Fitzsimmon of Wedbush examines the differences for investors.Source: Bloomberg
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The world’s biggest exchange just joined the bitcoin revolution.

Bitcoin futures started trading Sunday night at CME Group Inc.’s venue, a week after Chicago rival Cboe Global Markets Inc. introduced similar derivatives on the volatile cryptocurrency. CME is a much bigger player in futures, so many traders expected it to make a bigger splash in the nascent space.