On November 1st the NYMEX opened an open-outcry pit in Dublin to handle Brent crude futures, the benchmark contract for pricing two-thirds of the world's oil.

11月1日，纽约商品交易所在都柏林的期货交易所开张，并以公开叫价的方式交易作为世界三分之二原油的定价基准的布伦特原油期货。

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Instead, traders around the world will be able to buy and sell futures contracts on any of these exchanges via a single computer link, without anyone signalling a trade across the crowded floor of a futures pit.

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The pit still drives screen volume--20% of electronic trades in financial futures originate in the pits.

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