The utility was, in effect, nationalised after the government took a 50.11% stake in the group in exchange for the capital injection.
We asked another group to exchange an e-mail with a stranger who faced the same decision with a different counterpart, and who indicated that he or she would probably tell the truth, because it was the right thing to do.
The dissidents were led by hedge funds angered at the German financial-exchange group's recent attempt to take over the London Stock Exchange.
Even the high-flying exchange stocks were off: NYSE Group fell 5% and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called CME Group, fell 3%.
Cathy Bolshaw, from Stop The Rail Freight Exchange group, called the decision "devastating for St Albans".
Securities laws and Nasdaq's own rules have helped limit the exchange group's expenses from the technical glitches.
That latter step is what gutted a rival offer for the Big Board from Nasdaq OMX Group and Intercontinental Exchange.
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Those Asian exchanges are key to creating a truly global exchange group.
The UK's competition regulator has given the London Stock Exchange Group the go-ahead for its planned takeover of clearing house LCH Clearnet.
MarshallCarterMarshall Carter, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group, testified that Sarbanes-Oxley has undermined the international competitiveness of our capital markets, prompting international companies to choose to list abroad.
Thain, a dispassionate, numbers-driven executive lacking the back-slapping charisma of a Richard Grasso or a David Komansky, transformed the Big Board from its clubby ways to a global, electronically driven exchange group.
But the group said if current exchange rates continue, operating profits this year could be reduced by 10%.
Enter Luis Juan Virata, chairman and CEO of Jardine Fleming Exchange Capital Group.
"There's definitely more caution in the air this time, " said Mark Otto, a Knight Capital Group director based on exchange floor.
One of the results of the industry group that was formed after that, the Counterparty Risk Management Group, was improved exchange of information about counterparty risks.
Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) agreed to sell its asset management group to BlackRock in exchange for a 49% ownership.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) is said to be exploring the purchase of Instinet Group , the electronic exchange currently majority-owned by Reuters PLC .
The paradox is that part of the euro's purpose is to re-empower the European electorate by equipping the EU with a currency strong enough to challenge the rule of the tiny group of foreign-exchange dealers who, in a floating exchange-rate regime, can settle the fate of national economic policies.
Have each group write up its sampling, method and questions, and then exchange its poll with another group.
LimeInside currently offers co-location at the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq OMX Group, NYSE Arca and BATS. This service will be extended to Direct Edge, the newest exchange, and the rest of the New York Stock Exchange in a few weeks, Wecker says.
Exchange operator CME Group and Citadel Investment Group are hoping to change that.
The LSE Group owns the London Stock Exchange and several trading platforms.
Congress wants that trading to be more like the action on regulated exchanges run by the likes of NYSE Euronext, Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group.
With money and trading positions frozen or potentially lost, some people are feeling disappointed or even betrayed by the system and CME Group, the dominant futures exchange.
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Margin requirements in the spotlight this week again after the CME Group, owner of futures exchange NYMEX, announced a 25% hike in collateral requirements for crude oil futures, putting initial, and short-lived, pressure on WTI and Brent prices.
Harris, who trades for himself and has had stints as a fund manager and as a board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was part of the group that pushed the Merc to relinquish its mutual structure and become the first exchange to go public, in December 2002.
They just landed their first corporate customer, the Nasdaq OMX Group, owners of that stock exchange.
Private investment group Veriana is launching The Trend Exchange which will offer movie derivatives trading.
Mr. Greifeld said Nasdaq executives relied too heavily on assurances from the exchange's technology group.
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