In the following video, Motley Fool analysts Morgan Housel and Matt Koppenheffer discuss the recent purchase of the New York Stock Exchange (NYX.DL) by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE 0.16%). They tell us how the mass move toward electronic trading and shrinking profit margins in the stock trading business mean mergers here are a necessity, and how investors shouldn't count their chickens on this particular merger just yet, until it passes regulatory review.
The New York Stock Exchange has just been bought.
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