About NASDAQ
In Profile
The NASDAQ Stock Market® is the largest U.S. electronic stock market and the fastest, most emulated market model worldwide. Approximately 3,200 companies from 37 countries and across all industry sectors are listed here. NASDAQ® lists more companies, on average, trades more shares per day — about two-billion shares daily — and handles more IPOs — over 1,000 since 2000 — than any other U.S. exchange. NASDAQ delivers the highest regulatory integrity and a robust body of high-value services for companies at all stages of public ownership.
NASDAQ Business Lines
NASDAQ Corporate Client Group
NASDAQ is the market of choice for industry-leading companies. The NASDAQ Corporate Client Group is dedicated to providing NASDAQ-listed companies with unmatched customer service, visibility and market intelligence. NASDAQ-listed companies have access to innovative products and services through a robust group of wholly-owned subsidiaries, strategic alliances and a joint venture that make up NASDAQ Corporate Services. Combined, these services help NASDAQ-listed companies by facilitating transparency, mitigating risk and inspiring better corporate governance. An integral part of the quality service NASDAQ-listed companies receive is a NASDAQ Relationship Manager — a dedicated, day-to-day NASDAQ contact who works with our companies directly to answer their questions on market matters and other issues that affect them. The NASDAQ Market Intelligence Desk® gives senior executives an immediate, integrated and insightful source of real-time market information customized to their companies and needs. NASDAQ-listed companies also have opportunities to increase their visibility through venues that are uniquely NASDAQ including the NASDAQ MarketSite® and NASDAQ websites. To learn more about NASDAQ Corporate Services, visit NASDAQ Online at www.nasdaq.net.
NASDAQ Data Products
NASDAQ Data Products is committed to providing investors, portfolio managers, broker/dealers and registered representatives with the highest quality market data available. NASDAQ’s data products are powerful tools that enable unparalleled market transparency to help users make better-informed and more confident trading decisions. NASDAQ’s premier data product — NASDAQ TotalView® — gives users access to all bids and offers, attributed and anonymous, at every price level in NASDAQ. NASDAQ ModelViewSM represents the first time that a market center has provided insight into the full liquidity available in its market, including reserve interest. And, NASDAQ’s Experimental Market Information (EMI) website offers users a testing ground for NASDAQ’s latest data innovations before they become widely available. NASDAQ Market VelocitySM and NASDAQ Market ForcesSM, the EMI website’s most recent product releases, allows traders to better detect surges in trading interest and liquidity. The Data Products business line is unique in its ability to provide highly valued data that meets the needs of market participants and the investors they serve.
NASDAQ Transaction Services
NASDAQ Transaction Services is the engine of our market. NASDAQ’s trading platform is a fully integrated order display, execution and trade reporting system for all NASDAQ, NYSE- and Amex-listed securities. NASDAQ’s trading platform — the fastest platform available — accommodates diverse business models and trading preferences. NASDAQ offers many advanced order types and enhanced connectivity at competitive industry prices. Through the innovative NASDAQ Opening & Closing Crosses, we provide accurate and consistent opening and closing prices for NASDAQ-listed issues, plus the transparency that investors need leading up to the open and close. NASDAQ also continues to make great strides in the way our customers trade NYSE-listed securities. Our fully electronic, transparent system, our state-of-the-art routing capabilities and our growing NYSE market share are just a few of the reasons why firms are increasingly choosing NASDAQ for their NYSE order flow.
NASDAQ Financial Products
NASDAQ Financial Products oversees the development of new NASDAQ indexes, the administration and marketing of NASDAQ indexes, the licensing of third party structured products and assists in the listing of third-party sponsored ETFs. Over 500 financial products sold in 37 countries are based on NASDAQ indexes. The NASDAQ-100 Index® is the benchmark for the PowerShares QQQTM Trust, Series 1 (symbol: QQQQ), an exchange-traded fund, which is the most actively traded listed equity security in the U.S. based on the average daily share trading volume as of March 31, 2007 (source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.). QQQQ is listed on NASDAQ along with a Fidelity ETF that tracks the performance of the NASDAQ Composite Index® (symbol: ONEQ), four First Trust ETFs that track the performance of the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted, NASDAQ-100 Technology, NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector and NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series indexes, ten PowerShares ETFs based on FTSE RAFI indexes and four BLDRS ETFs based on the Bank of New York’s ADR indexes.
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