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‘Free the Onions’ Rally Sparks Debate on 68-Year-Old Trading Ban

Bloomberg Markets Thursday 29 October 2026, 09:15 UTC By Erin Ailworth 1 min read
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‘Free the Onions’ Rally Sparks Debate on 68-Year-Old Trading Ban Outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, a small group of university students staged an irreverent rally that sparked a serious debate among some of America’s financial elite about what can and can’t be traded. At first glance, the target of the protest group, called For Our Futures, appeared to be obscure: a 68-year-old ban on trading onion futures, a prohibition the students want to overturn.

‘Free the Onions’ Rally Sparks Debate on 68-Year-Old Trading Ban Outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, a small group of university students staged an irreverent rally that sparked a serious debate among some of America’s financial elite about what can and can’t be traded. At first glance, the target of the protest group, called For Our Futures, appeared to be obscure: a 68-year-old ban on trading onion futures, a prohibition the students want to overturn.
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