Western Europe at midyear is a sight to behold—especially through the eyes of the businessman. In the seventh straight year of boom, the Common Market is producing 11% more steel and 10% more autos ...

Stefan Zapotocky wants to be a Metternich of the markets. The head of Austria's Wiener Börse sees himself as the great consolidator of Central Europe's stock exchanges. In May he led a consortium that ...

Consolidation continues to raise its head, but few can predict how the exchange landscape will look at the end of this year. Three years ago it looked as if Europes stock exchanges would consolidate ...

WARSAW, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Warsaw bourse, Europe's fastest growing stock exchange, said on Monday it planned to float a 64 percent stake by year-end, in an offer valued at up to 1.3 billion zlotys ...

European bourses had a mixed start to the week on Monday, with U.K. markets closed for a bank holiday, as investors looked ahead to the latest economic data and corporate earnings reports due this ...

This was CNBC's live blog covering European markets. European markets traded higher on Wednesday as earnings beats drove stock gains across various sectors. The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed 0.47% ...

LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The "gap" between policymakers wanting bourse mergers to deepen EU capital markets, and the demands of private shareholders makes it hard to push through consolidation, ...