http://news.yahoo.com/intercontinentalexchange-buy-nyse-8-2b-134719664--finance.html
Wow what an interesting turn of events for the NYSE. I wonder if the regulators will find anything wrong with I doubt it though.
Quite interesting as are so many things in that East v. West Germany dynamic. A relatively homogeneous populations split into two and dragged down almost polar opposite paths. An alien observer might have thought it was an experiment...