What is Exchange City Kansas City?
Exchange City is an experiential education curriculum that reinforces students’ language arts, social studies, math and technology skills by giving them real life application.
What happened Exchange City?
Apparently Exchange City shut down three years ago. But there is a similar facility called “School of Economics”, operating in Blue Springs that some of you may have attended. It has been open since 1994, and will be opening a new location in downtown Kansas City later this year.

In which year did the Kansas City Board of Trade launched the first stock index futures?
1982
In 1982, the exchange introduced Value Line futures, making it the first exchange offering a stock index futures contract. Options on Value Line futures were introduced in 1992. As of December 12, 2004, the Value Line futures began trade solely through an electronic trading platform.
Who bought the Kansas City Board of Trade?
CME Group
“The addition of KCBT to CME Group will provide significant value to the customers, shareholders and members, beginning on day one,” said CME Group CEO Phupinder Gill .
Where is the Kansas electronic exchange?
Specializing in the hard-red winter wheat contract, it was located at 4800 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. On October 17, 2012, CME Group announced it would acquire the exchange for $126 million in cash. Under the terms, the Kansas City trading floor remained open for at least six months.

Where is the Kansas City Board of Trade?
Kansas City, Missouri
Specializing in the hard-red winter wheat contract, it was located at 4800 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri….Kansas City Board of Trade.
KCBT | |
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Type | Commodity futures and options exchange |
Location | Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
Founded | 1856 (as a chamber of commerce) 1876 (formal charter) |
Owner | CME Group |