English to Italian Bus/Financial Economics

The Warsaw and Vienna exchanges are longstanding rivals. Vienna last year beat Warsaw to acquiring a controlling stake in the Prague Stock Exchange, one of the few remaining exchange prizes in eastern Europe. In addition to its 92.7 per cent stake in the WSE, Vienna holds 81 per cent of the Ljub]jana exchange in Slovenia and a 68.8 per cent stake in the Budapest Stock Exchange. Mr XXX said the group had paid ***on the upper side of valuation ranges*** for the stakes but he was encouraged that April`s volume figures had come in **"above budget"**. Wiener Borse was "consulting a lot of exchanges in the region" about cooperation, he said. "I think it would make a lot of sense if the region came together. We want to consolidate the whole region."

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