Word: markt
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...real driver of European growth will be technology. "Europe in its innovative drive is where the U.S. was three or four years ago," said Lipp. True, the technology stocks on markets like Germany's Neuer Markt and France's Nouveau Marche have been taken down hard recently in the global stock swoon, but Lipp calculates that 75% of these companies still have solid business models. He reported that American executives were also voting with their feet, and sizing up bargain-price European tech firms for acquisitions...
...businessmen were closing in on the purchase of the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire--a $680 million deal that brought Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the denizens of Sesame Street into the fold of their company, EM.TV & Merchandising. They were the toast of the high-flying Neuer Markt, a sub-exchange that the Deutsche Borse (German Stock Exchange) set up for sky-bound new issues like theirs...