CME Notifies Traders of Virus Case in Eurodollar Options Pit (1)

CME Group Inc. has informed its members of a positive Covid-19 case in someone who’d recently spent time at its eurodollar options pit in Chicago.

CME Group made the announcement in a memorandum on Monday, stating that the individual had reported symptoms that morning and was last in the pit on Friday. The trading floor has been disinfected twice since then and will remain open, the memo said. The eurodollar options pit reopened on Aug. 10 after a nearly five-month closure.

The company is far from the only organization grappling with returning to the office. But with its pits ...