NYSE Euronext Company Description
NYSE Euronext is one of the world's largest exchange groups, boasting trades totaling more than a third of the global cash equities volume. It operates such esteemed exchanges as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), one of the oldest and largest markets in the world; Euronext, the first cross-border exchange with markets in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Lisbon; NYSE Liffe, a leading international derivatives markets with daily trading values exceeding $2.7 trillion; and NYSE Amex, formerly the American Stock Exchange. In 2007 NYSE acquired Euronext and its derivatives and futures markets (including Liffe) for some $10 billion to create the first trans-Atlantic exchange. The following year it bought rival AMEX.
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