NYSE shares surge 31% on deal to sell company A woman walks by the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew / Associated Press / December 20, 2012 December 20, 2012, 7:01 a.m. Shares of NYSE Euronext surged 31% in early trading after the operator of the New York Stock Exchange announced a deal sell itself to IntercontinentalExchange Inc. NYSE Euronext shares gained $7.51, or 31%, to $31.56 shortly after the opening bell on Wall Street. NYSE Euronext announced early Thursday that it would sell itself to the ICE exchange, a 12-year-old commodities and futures trading venue based in Atlanta, in a stock-and-cash deal worth $8.2 billion. The deal is subject to approval by U.S. and European regulators and both companies' shareholders. ICE's shares gained $1.30, or 1%, to $129.61 a share in early trading. Major U.S. stock indexes, meanwhile, were edging lower. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 17 points, or 0.1%, to 13,235. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2 points, or 0.1%, to 1,434. The Nasdaq was off 7 points, or 0.2%, to 3,037. Shaquille O'Neal to launch "Luv Shaq" vodka FTC expands kids online privacy rules [Video chat] Carnival to bring additional ship to Long Beach in 2014