LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
NPR's business news starts with a new offer for the New York Stock Exchange.
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WERTHEIMER: The venerable exchange has another suitor. Two months after agreeing to be purchased by Germany's main stock exchange, the NYSE has received another offer, this time from its American rival, Nasdaq. Nasdaq is teaming up with a securities market based in Atlanta called the Intercontinental Exchange. They offered a bid of $11.3 billion. That's substantially higher than what the German exchange agreed to pay for the New York Stock Exchange. Nasdaq hopes to win NYSE's shareholders away from the German bid. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.