The Nasdaq stock market, the electronically linked network of broker-dealers in the United States, plans to open a Europewide exchange earlier this year.

Because, as any black-belt marital combatant knows, this particular overture is less calculated to open a forthright exchange than it is to open a wound.

West Germany is planning to open a similar exchange, using Swiss technology.

The Nasdaq stock market plans to open a pan-European exchange in early 2001 and Tradepoint, an alternative stock exchange, plans to offer pan-European trading by mid-2000.

Bell Telephone later opened a small exchange in his store.

The United States and Chinese Olympic committees signed an agreement of cooperation yesterday, opening an exchange leading up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

A competition has already developed between Shanghai and Shenzhen, the special economic zone bordering Hong Kong, over which will be the first to open a full-fledged exchange.

I want to make sure that the door keeps opening wider--maybe the acceptance of technical advisers or even an exchange of ambassadors.

The Nasdaq stock market, the largest electronic exchange in the United States, plans to open an Internet-based exchange that will list shares of companies based in Europe.

About the same time, the southern city of Shenzhen, next to Hong Kong, was also allowed to open an exchange.