Does Austria Need Further Privatizations?

CommentOpinion ♦ Published: September 24, 2013; 22:24 ♦ Updated: September 25; 11:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

Voestalpine´s CEO Wolfgang Eder wants to support the Vienna Stock Exchange. Without further privatizations, the stock market in Vienna could be history soon.

Does Austria Need Further Privatizations? / Picture: © Flickr / Worldsteel

Eder thinks that privatizations are an essential issue for the Vienna Stock Exchange. In an interview with the Austrian newspaper “Standard”, Eder argues that the Viennese equity market needs privatizations in order to survive. According to Eder, the time horizon is about three years.

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