NYSE: strongly interested in listing in Shanghai's int'l board

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SHANGHAI (Global Markets) - The NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) is still strongly interested in listing on Shanghai's international board, which will allow foreign firms to issue shares in mainland China for the first time, its chairman said on Friday.

"We are strongly interested as an even stronger leading stock exchange. We feel we should be listed on the international board," he told Global Markets on the sidelines of a financial conference in Shanghai.

"It's up to the authorities to see if we are still the favorite candidate."

(Reporting by Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)