Brussels, 01/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - As expected, on Wednesday 1 February 2012, the European Commission blocked the planned merger (announced in June 2011) between the German stock exchange, Deutsche Börse, and NYSE Euronext, as it would have resulted in a quasi-monopoly in the area of European financial derivatives traded globally on exchanges. The companies offered to sell certain assets and to provide access to their clearing house for some categories of new contracts, but overall, the...