Wednesday, March 29, 2017

EU blocks UK and German stock exchange merger

The European Union is vetoing a 26 billion dollar merger between the London Stock Exchange and German stock exchange, the Deutsche Boerse.

The London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse say the merger would have created a giant trading powerhouse that could better compete with the US.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock has more. 

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