On the Paris bourse, one post is provided for trading in unlisted issues.
Campari, a drinks firm whose shares will be floated on the Milan bourse on July 6th, claims to have produced the world's first ready-to-drink alcoholic aperitif in a single serving, CampariSoda, in 1932.
Trackers spend their days calling other trackers, trading information on available scripts. Lee had a brainstorm: why not put the whole information bourse on a Web site, as Fried Frank had done internally with its caseload server?
Eat with the locals at the tiny Bar de la Bourse (on Place St François) where a three-course meal, including local speciality sardines farcies, costs around €12. Chez Pipo on Rue Bavastro also does excellent value socca, a chickpea galette with olive oil.
Revenues have grown by an average of 27% a year since 1998.Founded in 1963 as a maker of ladies' lingerie in the Galician town of La Coruna, Zara today is the centrepiece of Inditex, a holding company for five fashion chains that is planning an initial public offering on the Madrid bourse on May 23rd.
Other typical local cuisine - ravioli, gnocchi and the quintessential Niçois dish, estocaficada (salt cod, vegetables, olive oil - it takes days to make) can be found at Le Bistrot d'Antoine, 27 rue de la Préfecture (00 33 4 9385 2957), and Café-Restaurant de la Bourse on Place St François (00 33 4 9362 3839).
They are presumed to have engaged in a life-and-death struggle, a concomitant of which was the dumping on the bourses of London, Paris, & Berlin of such vast blocks of Shell shares that the market value of the combine's stock dropped 12 and a half million pounds in a single day and depreciated more than a 130 million pounds in the course of a year.
Some incumbents are taking the fight directly to the upstarts: the London Stock Exchange, one of the world's oldest bourses, announced on June 29th that it had received regulatory approval for the launch of Baikal, its own pan-European dark pool.
Speculation on consolidation saw all three European bourses soar on Monday.
The move by the Hong Kong exchange, one of the world's biggest financial bourses based on market capitalization, to buy the L.M.E. is another sign of the mounting importance of Asia in the world's commodities industry.
