Craig donohue cuts an incongruously mild-mannered figure in a business known for sharp elbows and even the occasional punch. But the cme Group's lawyer-turned-boss is no pushover. Not content merely to run the world's biggest futures market, he seems bent on total domination. Having bagged its hometown rival, the Chicago Board of Trade (cbot), last summer, the cme is negotiating an $11 billion takeover of the New York Mercantile Exchange (nymex) that would push it past Germany's Deutsche Borse to become the world's most valuable exchange group.
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