Euronext information

To be sure, the recent news of NYSE's bid to join forces with Euronext is exciting. Here is a link to Euronext's annual report that's full of good background information. If you flip to page 13 (page 17 of the PDF) you can see some of the synergies that would result from a NYSE/Euronext unification.

In addition to creating a company that would collect revenue for up to 12 hours/day a merger with Euronext would catapult NYSE into a "wide range of interest-rate, equity, index, commodity, and
currency derivative products" (page 13 of Euronext annual report).