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The only way is upNot the greatest week for CBoT, with the discovery that it had romped home in first place in the race nobody wanted to win, viz beating Eurex US and Liffe Eurodollars to a zero activity trading day in its new German debt products. In fairness, CBoT has maintained all along that its Bund, Bobl and Schatz contracts are targeted at a niche market, but one sadly must assume that it didn't mean the kind of niche market that could arrive together on the back of a motorbike, if at all. But never fear, I have...

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