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...Deutsche Börse to take over the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Now a new craze seems to be catching on as quickly as the latest mobile ringtone: small-cap markets. Euronext last week launched Alternext, its junior, Paris-based market for small firms, just a month after the Irish Stock...
...Exchange opened its new market for growing businesses, the Irish Enterprise Exchange. Even Deutsche Börse has reportedly eyed a copycat exchange. What's the rush? Alternext is seeking to mirror the success of the LSE's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Ten years after it opened, AIM now boasts more than 1,100 listings; last year alone, more than 300 companies were quoted, twice as many as in the previous year. The attraction for cash-hungry minnows is obvious. Firms don't need to produce a trading record, and benefit from lighter regulation. But while AIM makes raising capital...
...owns the famous English franchise. It was the climax of a protracted battle that has pitted Glazer, who owns U.S. football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, against Man U's board and thousands of its fans. But Glazer, who already owned almost 29% of the team's stock, persuaded two Irish racing millionaires to sell him their 29% stake for $5.60 per share. Several other big shareholders also sold out to Glazer, taking his total to almost 74.8% - just short of the 75% he needs to take the club private. But even if he's all but won the financial battle...
...political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first of the prisoners to die, has hovered over Ulster's uneasy peace ever since. Yet it is an English-born woman - a former globetrotting advertising executive now raising a family in Provence...
...mayor will become the chief political figure in the city,” Irish said in an interview yesterday...