German stock market bids $2.8 billion for US peer ISE

Pb3190 said: "[URL="http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=173848"]http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=173848[/URL] I saw this on the Google finance page... How do events like this impact the United States as an economic and world power? I can't imagine another country owning or running our market would be a good thing."

JohnL said: "Have you heard of NYSE Euronext? What do you think the Europeans thought of that? How about Nasdaq LSE (even though that didn't go through)?"

Pb3190 said: "No, I have not heard of that. This is the first news article I have seen, or at least remember, about an exchange being sold. I guess what you are saying is that countries buy and sell exchanges often, and that America is also on the buying end of some of these deals? That would make sense, I just didn't think of it like that at the time I started this post."