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First Trans-Atlantic Stock Market Aims for Early '07 Launch (2/2)

In the past, stock markets were organized unlike the companies they listed.Now many financial markets operate as publicly traded businesses. That means they must answer to their own shareholders.

The New York Stock Exchange was a nonprofit organization that was largely self-supervising. Then, last March, the NYSE Group was formed as a publicly traded company. That happened when the Big Board combined with the electronic trading exchange Archipelago Holdings. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange became the first publicly traded exchange in the United States at the end of 2002.

Some markets have sought to buy or link with other exchanges. These deals have created bigger markets, often selling highly complex financial products. Bigger markets offer more liquidity -- investors have a greater chance of selling quickly if needed.
NYSE Euronext will trade not only stocks but options, futures, bonds and more. Total value of the listed companies? About 26 trillion dollars. The stock prices of the NYSE Group and Euronext both doubled last year. This has other big exchanges considering deals of their own.

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