LA SEC APPROVA LA FUSIONE NYSE ARCHIPELAGO
LE AZIONI NYSE IN BORSA DALL'8 MARZO COL SIMBOLO NYX

dal wall street journal online:

SEC Approves NYSE's Plan
To Buy Archipelago

By AARON LUCCHETTI
February 27, 2006 7:27 p.m.

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the New York
Stock Exchange's landmark transaction to buy electronic exchange
operator Archipelago Holdings Inc. and go public.

In an announcement Monday evening, the SEC announced the deal
can move forward. The SEC approval represents the final hurdle
before the NYSE can close the deal. The exchange has said it
will try to close the deal -- currently valued at about $7
billion -- about a week after SEC approval.

Shares of the new company, NYSE Group Inc., will trade under the
symbol NYX. The NYSE is making the deal as a way to go public
and to build its business in stock options, exchange traded
funds, stocks listed on Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. and bonds.

Earlier this year, federal regulators at the SEC required
changes in the way the NYSE's regulatory board was structured.
After consulting with the SEC, the NYSE changed the board by
adding more independent directors who won't also sit on the new
NYSE Group board.

The NYSE expects to follow the SEC's approval with a secondary
stock offering in March or April, as current Big Board members
decide whether they want to sell some of their shares in the new
company.

Regulators' approval marks the last step in a difficult merger
approval process. The exchange got antitrust approval from the
Department of Justice, then got overwhelming support from the
exchange's 1,366 seatholders, or members, approved the deal
overwhelmingly in December after the exchange fended off a
lawsuit from dissident members and an alternative bid proposal
floated by billionaire investor and NYSE member Kenneth Langone.

In a statement, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said "The evolution
of our major exchanges into for-profit, publicly-traded
companies that compete on a global basis will require
increasingly vigorous and vigilant regulation." He added that
the SEC "intends to closely monitor" the new company's
performance.

The NYSE said the merger will close Tuesday March 7, with the
shares of the NYSE Group beginning March 8. "This will mark the
beginning of a new era for the exchange and America's financial
markets," said John Thain, the exchange's chief executive in a
statement.
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> LE AZIONI NYSE IN BORSA DALL'8 MARZO COL SIMBOLO NYX

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