Critics want the wheat sorted from the chaff: they say that penny shares, which are prone to manipulation, should be delisted, with the Nemax 50 also shorn of, say, 20 members.Deutsche Börse, which runs the tech exchange, has been trying to rebuild the Neuer Markt's reputation, by tightening regulations.
I have a long position in the telecom equipment companies, which are a large share of the tech exchange-traded fund.
The high-tech exchange in its shining moment?
Three bipolar membranes, two home-made composed of commercial cation (DuPont) and anion (FuMA-Tech) exchange membranes (called Nafion/FT-FAA and Nafion/FT-FAS) and a commercial one, BP-1 from FuMA-Tech, were investigated in order to characterize their suitability to use in a H2/O2 fuel cell intended to produce hydrogen peroxide on the cathode instead of water.
Through the day and into the evening, officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies hunted for clues amid a tangle of electronic trading records from the nation's increasingly high-tech exchanges.
Last year orchestrated alliance with Time Warner's AOL; members search with Google search tech in exchange for 5% stake in Time Warner.
Wall Street's hi-tech Nasdaq exchange has wheeled out its confetti machine for the first time since the credit crunch.
The merged London and Frankfurt exchanges, iX, recently announced that they would join with the high-tech Nasdaq exchange.On the jobAmerican unemployment fell in April to its lowest since the beginning of 1970, down 0.2 percentage points from March to 3.9%.
ChiNext is now priced at nearly 140 times last year's earnings, a valuation that puts it in the same league as NASDAQ, America's tech-heavy exchange, at the height of the dotcom frenzy.
But Google's choosing to list on America's tech-heavy exchange after its $2.7 billion initial public offering is a boon for NASDAQ, which fought off strong competition from the New York Stock Exchange.Reed Elsevier announced that it would pay $775m for Seisint, an American company specialising in providing information to improve risk-management decisions.
Although they have made inroads into NASDAQ's market (only about one-fifth of shares listed on the tech-heavy exchange are traded there), they have made much less impression on the NYSE, which has an 80% share of its own patch.
