European regulators likely will not try to "make or break" Deutsche Boerse AG's (DB1Gn.DE) $9 billion merger with NYSE Euronext (NYX.N), NYSE Chief Executive Duncan Niederauer said on Tuesday. Instead, the European Commission probably will consider demanding smaller changes to preserve competition before allowing the deal to purchase NYSE to go through, he said. Niederauer's comments on a conference call discussing NYSE Euronext's quarterly profit decline, come days before the commission is expected to enter a second and more in-depth phase of its antitrust review. Regulators in Europe and the United States are all that stands between Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext as they move to create the world's largest exchange operator.
NYSE Euronext is a global operator of financial markets and provider of trading technologies. Shares of NYX fell by 2.73% or $-0.9/share to $32.10. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $26.92 and as high as $41.60. On average, 3861090 shares of NYX exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 815211.
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