London Stock Exchange Group Share Price (LSE) - Buy LSE Shares

The London Stock Exchange Group plc is the forerunner of the stock exchange group in Europe as since 2007 it owns both the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. The Group covers six various divisions: Information, Post Trade, Trading, Issuer, Corporate and Other and under these headings over 600 firms globally trade as members of the London Stock Exchange. In merging with the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange Group intends to diversity the LSE's array of products and customer base and is now Europe's leading equity business with 48% of the FTSEurofirst 100. In 2008 the LSE Group also announced its intention to form a joint venture with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to form an alliance between the British and Japanese stock markets.

Currently the LSE Group has 326,999 employees worldwide and despite being based in London, it has a lot of international shareholders with 20.6% owned by the Borse Dubai, 15.1% by the Qatar Investment Authority and other groups such as Kinetics, Unicredito and Intesa Sanpaolo also hold a stake of the London Stock Exchange Group.

In recent times its lowest closing point has been in late October 2008 with 416.50 but since then the LSE Group has recovered somewhat and on January 23rd 2009 recorded a 21.9% increase since late October 2008. In the last 52 week period it has fluctuated from 416.50 to 1,821. Its current revenues are 688.80 million pounds and its net income is 181.50 million pounds.