Thursday, January 24, 5:27 AM
NYSE Euronext (NYX) doesn't intend to sell Euronext and will instead continue with its plan to spin off of the unit as part of Big Board's $8.2B acquisition by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer has said. NYSE has reportedly received interest for Euronext, which could be valued at an estimated $1.39B in an IPO, from Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ) and the London Stock Exchange Group.
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Monday, December 24, 2012, 9:06 AM
The London Stock Exchange (LDNXF.PK) slashes its offer for LCH Clearnet by a quarter to $482M as new capital requirements make the clearing house - owned by the world's major banks, the LME, and NYSE Euronext - a lot less valuable. The deal - then valued at $613M - was first announced back in March.
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Monday, April 2, 2012, 2:53 AM
LSE (LDNXF.PK) moves closer to completing its $1B takeover of LCH.Clearnet, saying today that a majority of shareholders have approved the deal which is expected to close in Q4.
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Friday, March 9, 2012, 4:56 AM
LSE (LDNXF.PK) agrees to buy a majority stake in LCH.Clearnet for €772M ($1B). LCH.Clearnet shareholders will receive €19/share in cash plus €1/share from a special dividend for a stake of as much as 60%. (previously)
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 9:52 AM
London Stock Exchange (LDNXF.PK) signs a data license agreement with Google (GOOG), allowing it to distribute real-time data free of charge. Previously, stock trade data from the London and Italian bourses was only available with a 15-minute delay.
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Friday, December 30, 2011, 10:06 AM
Stock and derivative exchanges had merger fever in 2011, but that's meant little for their public stockholders: Some $37B in announced deals have failed to go through and more than $21B in equity value vanished. One manager: "The next time any exchange announces any merger whatsoever, I’m selling the stock instantaneously." This year: DBOEY.PK -20.5%, NYX -12.5%, ASXFY.PK -14%, LDNXF.PK -4.7%. (More time for NYX/DBOEY.PK)
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Monday, December 12, 2011, 7:15 AM
London Stock Exchange Group (LDNXF.PK) is buying the 50% stake it doesn't already own in FTSE International from Pearson (PSO) for £450M ($705M) as part of its diversification strategy.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011, 2:50 PM
Squeezed out of normal funding markets, Italian banks are increasingly turning to the London Stock Exchange's Italian clearinghouse (CC&G) for short-term loans. CC&G deposits in the banks money it receives as collateral for trades, earning a nice fee in return. It's a sweet business (until someone defaults), profits are up 209% vs. last year.
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Friday, September 2, 2011, 4:06 AM
LSE (LDNXF.PK) says it is in early talks to buy LCH.Clearnet in a deal that the FT says could value the clearing house at €1B ($1.43B). The discussions pit LSE against market-data firm Markit, while Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ) has also shown interest in the past. (PR; previously)
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 3:24 AM
EU stocks fall in early trading over disappointment with the Sarkozy-Merkel meeting. EURO STOXX 50 -0.8%, London -0.8%, Paris -0.6%, Frankfurt -0.5%. LSE (LDNXF.PK) -6.7% in London, Deutsche Boerse (DBOEY.PK) -4% in Frankfurt on plans for a tax on financial transactions.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 8:51 AMMore on Nasdaq's (NDAQ -0.4%) earnings: Q2 net profit -4.2% as $29M costs related to its failed NYSE (NYX) bid offset market share gains and a lower tax rate. "We are confident in our ability to continue growing...organically," says CEO Robert Greifeld. Does that mean no bid for LSE (LDNXF.PK)?
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Monday, July 4, 2011, 5:08 AM
The London Stock Exchange (LDNXF.PK) would be open to a merger of equals with Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ) following the failure of its bid for TMX Group (TMXGF.PK). Any tie-up would provide a counterweight to the combination of NYSE Euronext (NYX) and Deutsche Boerse (DBOEF.PK).
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Thursday, June 30, 2011, 2:19 PM
The London Stock Exchange (LDNXF.PK) may have abandoned its bid for TMX Group (TMXGF.PK), but the the coast isn't yet clear for Maple Group's hostile bid. Maple still needs to sell TMX management and shareholders on the deal by its Aug. 8 deadline, and it has to soothe the fears of antitrust regulators as well.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:37 AM
A Nasdaq-London Stock Exchange pairing would seemingly bring together two jilted bridesmaids, and shares of Nasdaq (NDAQ) rose 4.7% yesterday and +1% premarket after a report from Charlie Gasparino that it had set its sights on acquiring LSE (LDNXF.PK), whose bid for TMX Group fell apart in the face of a counteroffer by a group of Canadian banks and pension funds.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 6:36 AM
The Maple Group formally launches its hostile bid for TMX (TMXGF.PK). The offer is nearly identical to the preliminary proposal made last month, with an offer of C$48/share, but Maple is now looking to buy up to 70% of TMX share vs. 60% originally.
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