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German Börse in Talks to Buy the Big Board
Under the terms being negotiated, the New York Stock Exchange which began in 1792 when brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan to trade five securities of the new nation would still have a headquarters in Manhattan. But the Deutsche Börse would own as much as 60 percent of the new company, which would be incorporated in the Netherlands.Posted by: Beavis 2011-02-10 |
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