The pricing pressures appear to be only in the commodities that are traded on the equity exchanges!

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Even if they are, says Ben Van Vliet, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the equity exchanges will likely shut down the activity soon.

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Since listing their equity interests on stock exchanges, these private equity firms have had to become responsive to this new constituency.

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