银行方面解释此举是为了把股票交易市场引入更广泛的竞争从而达到更低成本的终极目标，因为目前（欧洲）股票交易价格最高是美国的八倍。

The goal, the banks say, is to inject more competition into share trading and ultimately to lower costs, which can be up to eight times higher than in America.

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例如，纽约股票交易所与欧交所(Euronext)的合并不但进入了欧洲股票交易市场，还提供了交易伦敦国际金融期货交易所的的金融衍生物市场的机会，而这些金融衍生物产品在欧洲，美国及亚洲都有交易。

For the NYSE, for instance, the merger with Euronext offered not only access to European share trading but also to the LIFFE derivatives market, which trades in both Europe, America and Asia.

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股票交易市场处理闰秒的不同策略更是忙中添乱，因为亚洲市场打算正常交易，而美国市场则计划提前停止交易活动。 。

To make matters more complicated, stock exchanges are approaching the leap second differently, with Asian markets planning to trade as normal, while US exchanges are expected to stop activityearly.

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