Market Sense

Astronomical leveraged buyout activity fuelled by private equity is creating growing financial dangers to dealmakers, their backers and targeted companies that risk a return to the most terrible excesses of past merger booms, the International...

Nasdaq is at present involved in talks to acquire the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the third-largest options exchange in the US by contracts traded, reported the Wall Street Journal recently. Though the two exchanges have been locked in...

CBOT Holdings Inc., the parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, has ended its silence that it was maintaining since last week saying its board had authorized talks with InterContinental Exchange, the Atlanta-based company that made a surprise bid for.

Intercontinental Exchange Inc., which handles 45 percent of global oil futures trading, surprised financial markets by making an unsolicited $10 billion bid for the Chicago Board of Trade to prevent a $25 billion purchase by Chicago Mercantile...