EU watchdog to review single record of real-time share prices

LONDON (Reuters) - European markets regulators are considering creating a single record of trading data from the dozens of separate national exchanges and trading venues, to increase transparency and help investors find the cheapest deals.The mechanism, known as a "consolidated tape", has been a longstanding goal for investors in Europe, which has about 20 trading venues, some of which offer the same stocks but publish information on trades and volumes in different ways.If created, a single..