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Article: Commercial Review: After merger muddle, the Exchange finds it's time to take stock.(Features)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2001
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Byline: HELEN MCGURK
It was the year when dot.com turned into dot.bomb, when the Stock Exchange nearly became a takover victim, when the telecom giants lost all sense of proportion and a new group was formed - the "mass affluent"
THE Stock Exchange is no stranger to take over battles, but for an organisation which insists on telling public companies how to arrange their affairs it got itself into a right old mess in trying to sort out its own merger arrangements.
Chairman Don Cruickshank was determined to carry forward a plan to merge the London ...