London Stock Exchange, which runs the world's third-biggest sharemarket, has offered to buy the city's derivatives exchange, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe), to avoid losing business to European rivals that offer both stock and futures trading.
Shares of Liffe Holdings soared 278p, or 32 per cent, to 1138p.
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