With Recent Mergers of Stock Exchanges, Beginning with the New

question 137

True/False

With recent mergers of stock exchanges, beginning with the New York Stock Exchange merger with Archipelago, and subsequently with Euronext and then Deutsche Borse, most exchange floors are symbolic because trades usually take place via computers.

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