A record GBP82.5 billion was raised through new and further issues of equity on the London Stock Exchange during the course of 2009, an increase of 16 per cent on the total for 2008, itself a record year.
London Stock Exchange Group plc (LON:LSE) (LSEG) and Turquoise Trading Limited (Turquoise) today announced their agreement to create a new pan-European trading venture through a merger of the businesses of Turquoise and Baikal Global Limited (Baikal).
London Stock Exchange (LON:LSE) announces that it will introduce a new order-driven trading service for bonds. This new electronic order book will be available for a select number of gilts and UK corporate bonds and will offer private investors with an on-screen secondary market in London-listed debt securities for the first time. This new service is expected to go live in February next year.
The board of Pioneers Holding Co.(CAI:PIOH) agreed to acquire Beltone Financial Company through increasing the capital of the company and share swap with the shareholders of Beltone Financial.
London Stock Exchange Group plc (LON:LSE) announced today it has completed its acquisition of MillenniumIT for $US30 million. The transaction will provide the Group with a new, high performance trading platform and an agile, efficient, in-house IT development capability and give MillenniumIT the backing it needs to enable it to develop further its global exchange technology business.
Wall Street closed lower overnight after American consumer confidence reading in September dropped unexpectedly. The weakness in US technology stocks, which had been a leader for much of Wall Street's six-month rally, yesterday led a fall in the market. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index dipped in September to 53.1 from 54.5 in August as people worries about job market.
MTS, the leading market in Europe for the trading of fixed income securities, announces that the Board of Directors, chaired by Luigi Spaventa, yesterday appointed Jack Jeffery as Chief Executive of MTS S.p.A..
