CNBC has opened a broadcast set on the trading floor of CBOE Global Markets in Chicago, reports Dak Dillon of Newscast Studio.
Dillon writes, “The set is designed so the trading floor remains the focus.
“‘The set itself doesn’t really present itself on TV so much, because what we want to see is the trading floor,’ said Lou Visconti, streaming platform and broadcast technology manager at Versant. ‘So the trading floor ends up being the star of the shot.’
“’The floor is one of the last real open-outcry areas of any market whatsoever,’ said Jason Gewirtz, vice president of news at CNBC. ‘The traders on the floor are yelling at each other. They’re giving signals, and they’re doing live orders just like it used to be at the New York Stock Exchange 40 years ago.’
“The floor uses open-outcry trading, a system in which traders communicate orders by shouting and using hand signals rather than relying only on computers.”
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