Thursday, December 20, 2012

New York Stock Exchange to be Sold for $8.2 Billion


Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) is buying rival exchange, The New York Stock, Exchange (NYSE) for a little over $8 billion.

For $33.12 a share, ICE will acquire the NYSE in the second half of 2013.

CEO Jeffrey Sprecher of ICE says that he believes that the sale of NYSE will be helpful in serving customers by uniting their resources.

ICE is stationed in Atlanta and will now have dual headquarters in both Atlanta and in New York.

The buying of the NYSE will help ICE cut costs and boost its earnings by 15 percent within one year of the deal.




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