Cboe and CNBC Launch Multi-Year Collaboration to Deliver Daily Live Market Coverage from Chicago Trading Floor
- CNBC expands its stay market presence with day by day broadcasts from Cboe’s buying and selling ground starting April 6
CHICAGO, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a number one international markets operator and pioneer in fairness derivatives, and CNBC, the acknowledged world chief in enterprise information, in the present day introduced a multi-year collaboration that may carry day by day CNBC programming to Cboe’s historic Chicago buying and selling ground.
Beginning April 6, CNBC will increase its stay market protection, delivering real-time evaluation of breaking information, market volatility, and choices exercise throughout its linear and digital platforms from the center of the U.S. choices market.
The relationship comes as demand for U.S. choices reached report ranges, pushed by rising need for threat administration instruments from retail and institutional buyers, and the expansion of options-based ETFs. Total U.S. choices buying and selling quantity in 2025 was 15.2 billion contracts, up 26% in contrast to 2024’s report yr, and included report exercise in single inventory, ETF and index choices.
“Chicago has long been a cornerstone of the global financial markets and home to many of the world’s most sophisticated options traders, market makers, and clearing firms. As the pioneer and founding force behind the listed options industry, Cboe’s trading floor remains the most vivid representation of this vibrant ecosystem,” stated Craig Donohue, Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Global Markets. “We are excited to work with CNBC, a trusted financial news leader, to showcase the energy and insights of the options market to a broader audience. As more investors turn to options to manage risk and opportunity, this collaboration with CNBC provides an important platform to deliver education, transparency and insight – directly from the world’s most dynamic trading floor.”
Cboe’s buying and selling ground brings collectively a group of greater than 300 brokers, market makers and trading-floor professionals representing corporations from each Chicago and world wide. Through a hybrid mannequin that integrates each open-outcry and digital buying and selling, the ground gives crucial liquidity and value discovery for S&P 500® Index (SPX) choices, Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX®) choices, and different key index and multi-list choices to buyers globally.
“As participation in options trading has increased, our audience has sought deeper, real-time insight into how these markets move,” stated David Cho, Editor-in-Chief of CNBC. “Expanding our live presence to Cboe’s trading floor strengthens CNBC’s ability to deliver on-the-ground reporting and expert analysis from the center of options activity. This collaboration reflects our broader strategy to invest in market coverage that provides the content and education investors need to navigate this increasingly important part of the investing landscape.”
The Cboe collaboration is the newest in a collection of initiatives by CNBC to deepen its market protection and increase its attain to new audiences throughout platforms. As a part of the connection, CNBC will make the most of proprietary Cboe knowledge to assist inform its reporting on the choices market. Coverage can be led by a devoted choices reporter and function stay market evaluation and visitor interviews. CNBC can even carry Cboe’s opening and closing bell-ringing ceremonies and set up a broadcast studio on the buying and selling ground scheduled to open later within the yr.
“Cboe’s trading floor has always been a defining symbol of our 53-year legacy and brand. It remains one of the most recognizable images of who we are as a company, and we are excited to further showcase our heritage through this collaboration with CNBC,” stated Megan Goett, Chief Marketing Officer at Cboe Global Markets. “Concurrently, as retail interest in options trading continues to grow, investor education is increasingly central to our strategy. By pairing Cboe’s deep market intelligence and insights with CNBC’s broad audience reach, we can help educate more investors about the value and potential of options and the important role they play in today’s markets.”
About Cboe Global Markets
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE) is a number one international markets operator with an extended historical past of innovation in fairness derivatives. Since launching the world’s first listed choices change in 1973, Cboe has pioneered landmark merchandise, together with the introduction of S&P 500® index choices and the creation of the VIX® Index, the world’s main gauge of market volatility, reshaping how buyers handle threat and entry alternative. Today, Cboe operates derivatives, equities, and FX markets, offering buying and selling, clearing, and funding options for patrons worldwide. To study extra, go to www.cboe.com.
About CNBC
CNBC is the acknowledged international chief in enterprise and monetary information, reaching half a billion folks each month throughout all platforms. With headquarters within the U.S., Europe, and Asia, CNBC delivers real-time protection of monetary markets, breaking information, unique interviews, knowledgeable evaluation on shares and buying and selling, and in-depth stories on the forces shaping the worldwide economic system. CNBC’s mission is to assist enterprise leaders, the monetary group, and anybody with property to make investments or shield make knowledgeable selections and keep forward.
CNBC connects with audiences by way of a complete portfolio that features stay international TV programming, digital locations equivalent to CNBC.com, CNBC Make It, and CNBC Select, and subscription companies like CNBC+, CNBC Pro, and the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer. Premium content material can also be accessible by way of stay occasions, councils, cell apps, podcasts, newsletters, social media, and throughout digital video and voice platforms.
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