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Kickoff to Nasdaq-NYSE Deal: "Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?"
It’s the exchange world’s version of the Odd Couple. Bob Greifeld, the hard-nosed CEO who runs Nasdaq OMX Group, meets Jeff Sprecher, the politically savvy commodities guru who started IntercontinentalExchange Inc. from scratch in 2000. They don’t have much in common, right? That may have been the case until NYSE Euronext, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, decided to sell in February to Frankfurt’s Deutsche Börse. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Sprecher asked Greifeld on the phone after news of the deal broke. The answer was yes. Both were thinking of a joint bid for NYSE in which Greifeld ... (full story)