At a bustling construction site in the West German city of Düsseldorf last week, the final steel girders were being lowered into place for an important new building: Germany's biggest and most modern stock exchange. When it is formally opened next summer, the city's brokers and traders will have a 13-story, $1,500,000 granite-and-glass headquarters with a trading floor almost half the size of a football field, a modern ticker-tape system, offices and exhibition rooms and a 100-car parking garage. Düsseldorf's new Stock Exchange will symbolize the resurgence of West Germany's securities market, long one of the weakest links in...
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