According to her biography on the Virt Records Web site, Teng wrote her first song at six.

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Another competitor, virt-x, an electronic market based in London that deals mainly in the shares of big Swiss companies, has shown that small can be competitive.

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An example is virt-x, a small electronic exchange for European blue-chip shares which offers clearing and settlement alternatives: nearly all the liquidity has migrated to just one of them.

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