Bloomberg Stock exchange operator Euronext NV is evaluating how to create roadblocks to a merger between its London- and Frankfurt-based competitors because of concern the deal would marginalize its own role in European trading, according to people familiar with the matter. Euronext is working with advisers, including consultants and lawyers, as it prepares to argue to regulators in Brussels ...

  Bloomberg Spain is set to miss its deficit target as a cooling global backdrop holds back economic growth, Acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday as he presented the budget plan to parliament. The deficit will be 3.6 percent of gross domestic product this year, missing a target of 2.8 percent. That means Spain would require an ...

  Bloomberg For Britons in France, the upper lip is stiff no more. Louise Garavaglia, who has lived in France for more than two decades, is rushing to apply for a French passport before the June 23 “Brexit” referendum in the U.K. and has no time for “wait and see.” For his part, Paris-based financial consultant Paul Johnson-Ferguson is getting ...