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Nasdaq, Inc.


Nasdaq, Inc. is an American multinational financial services corporation that owns and operates (and is listed on) the NASDAQ stock market and eight European Stock Exchanges, including the Armenian Stock Exchange, Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Iceland Stock Exchange, Riga Stock Exchange, Stockholm Stock Exchange, Tallinn Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ OMX Vilnius. It is headquartered in New York City, and its president and chief executive officer is Adena Friedman. The Swedish investment company Investor AB has been a major shareholder since 2011. Nasdaq,
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NASDAQ


The Nasdaq Stock Market (, also known as Nasdaq) is an American stock exchange. It is the second-largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the New York Stock Exchange located in the same city. The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc., which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic (formerly known as OMX) and Nasdaq Baltic stock market network and several U.S. stock and options exchanges. "Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It was
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Nasdaq, Inc.


Euronext victory. NASDAQ Inc. partners with stock exchanges all over the world. One of the most recent partnerships was signed with Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) in May 2017. According to the agreement, NASDAQ will power Kazakhstan's nascent stock exchange, the AIFC Exchange. In January 2013, NASDAQ OMX announced that it would combine its global data products and index businesses into a unit called Global Information Services, as part of an ongoing effort to broaden its portfolio. On June 29, 2007, NASDAQ entered into an agreement
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Copenhagen Stock Exchange


The Copenhagen Stock Exchange or CSE (), since 2014 officially called Nasdaq Copenhagen, is an international marketplace for Danish securities, including shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, and financial futures and options. Nasdaq Copenhagen is one of the Nasdaq Nordic Exchanges. Nasdaq Nordic goes back to the 2003 merger of "OM AB" and "HEX plc" to form "OMX" and is, since February 2008, part of Nasdaq, Inc. (formerly known as "NASDAQ OMX Group"). The exchange was converted
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Philadelphia Stock Exchange


Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), now known as NASDAQ OMX PHLX, is the oldest stock exchange in the United States. It is now owned by Nasdaq Inc. Founded in 1790, the exchange was originally named the Board of Brokers of Philadelphia, also referred to as the Philadelphia Board of Brokers. In 1875, the Board of Brokers changed its name to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. The exchange merged with the Baltimore Stock Exchange in 1949 and was named the Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange. It merged with the Washington Stock Exchange
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Nasdaq, Inc.


York Stock Exchange. Subsequent purchases increased NASDAQ's stake to 29%, holding off competing bids for several months. However, only a further 0.4% of shareholders accepted the offer by the deadline and therefore the offer was rejected on February 10, 2007. On October 2, 2007, NASDAQ purchased the Boston Stock Exchange. On November 7, NASDAQ announced an agreement to purchase the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. On May 25, 2007, NASDAQ agreed to buy OMX, the Swedish-Finnish financial company that controls 7 Nordic and
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Nasdaq Nordic


". The operations have been part of Nasdaq, Inc. (formerly known as "Nasdaq OMX Group") since February 2008. Nasdaq Nordic has two divisions, OMX Exchanges, which operates eight stock exchanges mainly in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and OMX Technology, which develops and markets systems for financial transactions used by OMX Exchanges, as well as by other stock exchanges. OM AB ("Optionsmäklarna") was a futures exchange founded by Olof Stenhammar in the 1980s to introduce trading in standardized option contracts in Sweden.
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Stockholm Stock Exchange


been part of Nasdaq, Inc. (formerly called "Nasdaq OMX Group") and its Nasdaq Nordic markets. As of October 2014, the exchange operated under the legal name "Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB" (renamed "Nasdaq Stockholm AB" in 2015). Prior to the introduction of electronic trading on 1 June 1990, all trading was conducted on the floor of the Stockholm Stock Exchange Building. Its normal trading sessions are from 09:00am to 05:30pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the
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NASDAQ


founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which divested itself of Nasdaq in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. The Nasdaq Stock Market is owned and operated by Nasdaq, Inc., the stock of which was listed on its own securities exchange on July 2, 2002, under the ticker symbol . The Nasdaq Stock Market began trading on February 8, 1971. It was the world's first electronic stock market. At first, it was merely a "quotation system" and did not
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Nasdaq, Inc.


Baltic stock exchanges, for US$3.7 billion to form NASDAQ OMX Group. As of February 27, 2008, the deal was completed. On June 18, 2012, NASDAQ became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative on the eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). On December 12, 2012, NASDAQ OMX announced that it would acquire Thomson Reuters' investor relations, public relations and multimedia businesses for $390 million in cash. NASDAQ OMX completed the purchase on June 3,
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Chicago Stock Exchange


(the CHX Matching System). The National Stock Exchange ceased trading operations on May 30, 2014, bringing the number of active stock exchanges in the United States to 11. Wrote "Bloomberg", that left "just one public exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange Inc., that isn't owned Bats, Nasdaq OMX Group or IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc." On February 5, 2016, Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group, a Chinese led investment group, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CHX Holdings, Inc., the parent corporation of the
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National Stock Exchange (Jersey City, New Jersey)


as the CBOE Stock Exchange had closed the month prior. Wrote "Bloomberg", "just one public exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange Inc., that isn’t owned Bats, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. or IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc." The New York Stock Exchange announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the NSX, subject to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval. The NSX ceased trading operations on February 1, 2017. NYSE plans to bring it back on its new trading platform Pillar, some time in the distant future
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Cboe Global Markets


on December 30, 2011 with both exchanges to operate under separate names. The National Stock Exchange continued to be based in Jersey City. In May 2014, the National Stock Exchange ceased trading operations on May 30, 2014. The closure brought the number of active stock exchanges in the United States to 11, as the CBOE Stock Exchange had closed the month prior. Wrote "Bloomberg", that left "just one public exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange Inc., that isn't owned Bats, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., or
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Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary)


GT Interactive to Infogrames, Inc. Almost three years later, on May 8, 2003, the company would again change its name, this time to Atari, Inc., becoming ATAR on the NASDAQ stock market. On September 1, 2006, Atari, Inc. announced that its stock faced delisting from the NASDAQ stock exchange due to its price having fallen below $1.00. On September 5, 2006, David Pierce was appointed as new CEO of Atari, replacing Bruno Bonnell. Pierce previously worked as an executive at Universal Pictures,
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Financial Industry Regulatory Authority


the public, plus those offering professional training, testing, and licensing of registered persons, arbitration and mediation, market regulation by contract for the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the International Securities Exchange, LLC; and industry utilities, such as Trade Reporting Facilities and other over-the-counter operations. FINRA was formed by a consolidation of the member regulation, enforcement, and arbitration operations of the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Regulation, Inc., and
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Hawaiian Airlines


, the airline announced an order for 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners with options for an additional ten; selecting GE GEnx engines. Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) is the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. Previously listed on the American Stock Exchange, the company moved to NASDAQ on June 2, 2008. Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. is a holding company whose primary asset is the sole ownership of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. On June 30, 2008, the company announced
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IEX


the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Inc. in nearly a decade... Companies seeking to list their shares on a U.S. exchange haven’t had a choice besides NYSE or Nasdaq since 2008, when the American Stock Exchange was acquired by NYSE." Only Wynn Resorts Ltd. said publicly that it was considering a listing on IEX at the time of the approval announcement, with IEX not releasing more details on listings. IEX was created in response to questionable trading practices that had become widely used across traditional public Wall Street exchanges as well as
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Anastasios "Takis" Kyriakides


's president and chairman. Mylex stock was traded on the NASDAQ under the stock symbol MYLX until it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. In 1984, Kyriakides founded Regency Cruises Inc., which was listed at that time on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol SHIP, and served as its chairman and secretary. Kyriakides founded and presently serves as chief executive officer of netTALK.com, Inc., and is the co-inventor of the netTALK DUO, a consumer electronics VoIP device for making telephone calls over an internet
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Tallinn Stock Exchange


Tallinn became NASDAQ OMX Tallinn. 2014 NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. changed its business name to Nasdaq, Inc. NASDAQ OMX Tallinn became Nasdaq Tallinn. To be eligible for inclusion to the main list, a company must have 3 years of operating history, an established financial position, market cap of not less than EUR 4 million, with reporting according to the International Financial Reporting Standards, and a free float of 25% or worth at least EUR 10 million. As of May 2019, there were 15 companies listed on the main
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Pluristem Therapeutics


. In 2003, the NASDAQ-listed shell company A1 Software acquired all shares and patents belonging to Pluristem and changed its name to Pluristem Life Systems. In 2007 the name was changed again, this time to Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. Pluristem's shares are traded on the NASDAQ exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, as well as on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In 2007 Pluristem entered into a collaborative research agreement with the Charité medical school in Berlin for a period of five years. In 2012 Pluristem announced that the agreement had been
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Nasdaq, Inc.


Inc. is the owner of the NASDAQ listing, founded in 1975. In December 2005, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) rejected a £1.6 billion takeover offer from Macquarie Bank. The LSE described the offer as "derisory". It then received a bid in March 2006 for £2.4 billion from NASDAQ, which was also rejected by the LSE. NASDAQ later pulled its bid, and less than two weeks later on April 11, 2006, struck a deal with LSE's largest shareholder, Ameriprise Financial's Threadneedle
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August 2013 NASDAQ flash freeze


, such as Sigma X, a dark pool operated by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Dark pools operated by other prominent banks and trading firms such as Wells Fargo and Citadel LLC were also nonoperational for periods of the freeze. These dark pools are not the jurisdiction of the Nasdaq or the NYSE but are reliant on accurate quotes being issued on stocks listed on either exchange and therefore cannot operate when Nasdaq stocks cannot be traded. Prior to a public statement made by Nasdaq OMX released on the evening of August 22, there was
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Stock exchange


Regulatory Commission. Another example is Tashkent Stock Exchange established in 1994, three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, mainly state-owned but has a form of a public corporation (joint-stock company). Korea Exchange (KRX) owns 25% less one share of the Tashkent Stock Exchange. In 2018, there were 15 licensed stock exchanges in the United States, of which 13 actively traded securities. All of these exchanges were owned by three publicly traded multinational companies, Intercontinental Exchange, Nasdaq, Inc.,
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NASDAQ OMX Vilnius


The Nasdaq Vilnius Stock Exchange ("till 2015 m. – Nasdaq OMX Vilnius") is a stock exchange established in 1993 ("Vilnius Stock Exchange", "VSE") operating in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is owned by Nasdaq Nordic, which also operates Helsinki Stock Exchange and Stockholm Stock Exchange. VSE, together with Riga Stock Exchange and Tallinn Stock Exchange is part of the joint Baltic market that was established to minimize investing barriers between Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian markets. It has a pre-market session from 08:45am
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" reported in 2011 that "much of the universe of Chinese reverse mergers has become a swamp of revenue disappointments, earnings restatements and some outright frauds," and that Bodisen was "one early sinkhole." In December 2010, the NASDAQ stock exchange delisted CleanTech Innovations Inc., a wind-tower manufacturer, citing its association with Wey, whom the exchange's senior vice president called "notorious" because of his past stock promotions. The NASDAQ delisting prompted a lawsuit in 2011 from CleanTech, which was represented by former U.S.
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Sampo Group


A share has been listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (former Helsinki Stock Exchange) since January 1988. In terms of market capitalization Sampo plc is one of the largest companies listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Björn Wahlroos, the Chairman of the Board, controls 6.6 million Sampo A Shares (1.2 per cent). Foreign and nominee registered owners had 67.26 % of Sampo plc's shares (30 Sep 2018). Sampo plc has 106,491 registered owners. If P&C Insurance is responsible for Sampo Group's property and casualty insurance operations.
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Tallinn Stock Exchange


Group. Trading in Estonian securities in the HEX trading system started on February 25, 2002. 2003 September 4 – The first day of operations for OMHEX, the new parent company of HEX Tallinn, created by the merger of Swedish OM and Finnish HEX. 2004 As a result of merger between Finnish and Swedish securities market operators into OMX, the Tallinn Stock Exchange adopted new trading platform. 2007 The alternative market “First North” was launched. 2008 NASDAQ and OMX merged; NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. was formed. OMX
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Euronext


NYSE Group, Inc. on April 4, 2007 to form NYSE Euronext (NYX). On November 13, 2013 Intercontinental Exchange (), completed acquisition of NYSE Euronext. Due to apparent moves by NASDAQ to acquire the London Stock Exchange, NYSE Group, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, offered €8 billion (US$10.2b) in cash and shares for Euronext on 22 May 2006, outbidding a rival offer for the European Stock exchange operator from Deutsche Börse, the German stock market. Contrary to statements that it
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Helsinki Stock Exchange


The Helsinki Stock Exchange (, ) is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003, it has been part of Nasdaq Nordic (previously called "OMX"). After the OMX merger, it was referred to as "OMX Helsinki" (OMXH), then after NASDAQ's acquisition of OMX in February 2008, "NASDAQ OMX Helsinki", and currently Nasdaq Helsinki. The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction on October 7, 1912. From then it remained a "free form"
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Aclara Biosciences


Aclara Biosciences, Inc. (also stylized as ACLARA Biosciences) was a medical technology company focused on developing applications of microfluidics for use in laboratory testing. It was publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol ACLA. Aclara Biosciences was founded in 1995 as Soane BioSciences, Inc. in Delaware. It was renamed Aclara Biosciences, Inc. in 1998. The company subsequently relocated its headquarters to Mountain View, California. Its initial public offering of 9 million shares took place on the NASDAQ stock exchange in March 2000. Also in 2000, Aclara was
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Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary)


6, 2008, Infogrames made an offer to Atari, Inc. to buy out all remaining public shares for a value of US$1.68 per share or US$11 million total. The offer would make Infogrames sole owner of Atari, Inc., making it a privately held company. On April 30, 2008, Atari, Inc. announced its intentions to accept Infogrames' buyout offer and merge with Infogrames. On May 9, 2008, it was revealed that NASDAQ would be removing Atari from the NASDAQ stock exchange. Atari has stated its
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Rosario Gangi


indictment. The scheme was a classic "pump and dump" stock scam. The mobsters acquired a large position in the stock of HealthTech International Inc., a Mesa, Arizona, health and fitness firm that was traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Tens of thousands of shares were given to the mobsters by top HealthTech officials Gordon Hall and Joe Kirkham. The crime families then bribed and threatened brokers at the Wall Street firm of Meyers Pollock Robins Inc., to sell the stock to unsuspecting investors. Once the stock price reached an
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Nasdaq, Inc.


2013. In April 2017, Nasdaq launched Nasdaq Ventures, a venture investment program focused on companies that will help Nasdaq grow its product lines and open new market segments. The first 3 companies announced as part of the program are Chain, a blockchain technology company; Digital Reasoning, cognitive computing technology; and Hanweck, real-time risk analytics. During Christmas of 2018, shareholders representing 25% of Oslo Børs VPS Holding (the Norwegian Stock Exchange and national CSD operator) held an private auction of share sale. Nasdaq did
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Snap Inc.


around 45% of the total stock. On January 29, 2017, it was reported that the Snap Inc. IPO would likely take place on the New York Stock Exchange. As both the NYSE and Nasdaq had been "aggressively courting the listing for more than a year," the "Wall Street Journal" called it "a big competitive victory for the Big Board." Snap's IPO was estimated to value the company at between $20 billion and $25 billion, the largest IPO on a US exchange since Alibaba
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Trading halt


in a security" exist. (The NASDAQ stock exchange does not implement non-regulatory trading halts.) Before trading resumes, market specialists must determine an appropriate price range in which the security can trade. Unlike regulatory halts, other U.S. exchanges do not always stop trading a security affected by the non-regulatory halt. NASDAQ OMX (owner of the NASDAQ stock market) displays current trading halts for the NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, and the American Stock Exchange, along with a rolling 21-day history. The OTCBB
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Economy of the United States


stock exchange in the world. As of October 2008, the combined capitalization of all domestic NYSE listed companies was US$10.1 trillion. NASDAQ is another American stock exchange and the world's third-largest exchange after the New York Stock Exchange and Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange. However, NASDAQ's trade value is larger than Japan's TSE. NASDAQ is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the U.S. With approximately 3,800 companies and corporations, it has more trading volume per hour than any other stock exchange.
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Seagate Technology


Barracuda HDD, the industry's first hard disk with a 7200-RPM spindle speed. In May 1993, Seagate became the first company to cumulatively ship 50 million HDDs over its firm's history. The following year Seagate Technology Inc moved from the Nasdaq exchange to the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the ticker symbol SEG. Upon leaving, the company was the 17th-largest company in terms of trading volume on the Nasdaq exchange. In 1996, Seagate merged with Conner Peripherals to form the world's largest independent hard-drive
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Ticker symbol


that stock. The symbols were kept as short as possible to reduce the number of characters that had to be printed on the ticker tape, and to make it easy to recognize by traders and investors. The allocation of symbols and formatting convention is specific to each stock exchange. In the US, for example, stock tickers are typically between 1 and 4 letters and represent the company name where possible. For example, US-based computer company stock Apple Inc. traded on the NASDAQ exchange has the symbol AAPL, while the
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Tallinn Stock Exchange


The Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange is a stock exchange operating in Tallinn, Estonia. Nasdaq Tallinn is the only regulated secondary securities market in Estonia. The major stock market index is Nasdaq Tallinn, formerly known as TALSE. The foundation of Estonian Central Securities Depository in 1994 created the basis for the development of the secondary market based on electronic trading system. This was realized with the founding of the Tallinn Stock Exchange in April 1995 by 10 commercial banks, 9 brokerage firms and state players (Hüvitusfond, Bank of Estonia, and Ministry
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Rofin-Sinar


The US based company ROFIN-SINAR Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures and sells laser sources and laser-based solutions for industrial material processing. On 7th November 2016, the company was acquired by Coherent Inc. From 1996 to November 2016, ROFIN-SINAR Technologies’ shares have been traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. In addition, in July 2001, RSTI was listed on the German "Prime Standard" segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the ISIN US7750431022. The companies wide range of laser sources, including CO2 lasers, fiber
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934


National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. – the NASD, which is a Self-Regulatory Organization (or SRO). The NASD had primary responsibility for oversight of brokers and brokerage firms, and later, the NASDAQ stock market. In 1996 the SEC criticized the NASD for putting its interests as the operator of Nasdaq ahead of its responsibilities as the regulator, and the organization was split in two, one entity regulating the brokers and firms, the other regulating the NASDAQ market. In 2007 the NASD merged with the NYSE (
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Boston Stock Exchange


The Boston Stock Exchange (now NASDAQ OMX BX, formerly "BSE") is a regional stock exchange located in Boston, Massachusetts. The third-oldest stock exchange in the United States, it was founded in 1834. On October 2, 2007, NASDAQ agreed to acquire BSE for $61 million. The Boston Stock Exchange was founded in 1834. In 2002, the BSE co-founded with the Montreal Exchange (MX), a derivatives exchange and Interactive Brokers, a discount brokerage, the Boston Options Exchange (
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Riga Stock Exchange


The Riga Stock Exchange, now Nasdaq Riga, is the sole stock exchange operating in Riga, Latvia. It is owned by Nasdaq, which also operates exchanges in the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Armenia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Established in 1993. Riga Stock Exchange, together with Vilnius Stock Exchange and Tallinn Stock Exchange is part of the joint Baltic market that was established to minimize investing barriers between Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian markets. OMX Riga (OMXRGI) is an all-share index consisting
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NASDAQ


Association of Securities Dealers spun off the Nasdaq Stock Market in 2000 to form a publicly traded company. On March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite peaked at 5,132.52, but fell to 3,227 by April 17, and in the following 30 months fell 78% from its peak. In 2006, the status of the Nasdaq Stock Market was changed from a stock market to a licensed national securities exchange. In 2010, Nasdaq merged with OMX, a leading exchange operator in the Nordic countries, expanded its global footprint, and changed
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Thomas Peterffy


campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IB) is an online discount brokerage firm in the United States. The company traces its origin to 1977 when Peterffy bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange as an individual market maker, and formed T.P. & Co. the following year. IB consists of many subsidiaries operating on most major stock, futures, bonds, forex, and options exchanges worldwide. The company commenced a public offering on 4 May 2007 under the ticker symbol on the Nasdaq exchange. On
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Stock market index


on exchange, such as the NASDAQ-100 or NYSE US 100, or groups of exchanges, such as the Euronext 100 or OMX Nordic 40. The concept may be extended well beyond an exchange. The Wilshire 5000 Index, the original total market index, represents the stocks of nearly every publicly traded company in the United States, including all U.S. stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (but not ADRs or limited partnerships), NASDAQ and American Stock Exchange. Russell Investment Group added to the family of indices by launching the
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Move (company)


He established a partnership with the National Association of Realtors, and his company, RealSelect Inc., operated Realtor.com. Under the agreement, the National Association of Realtors had a small stake in RealSelect. The company went public as Homestore.com, Inc. in 1999, and was traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In October 2000, Homestore agreed to purchase Move.com from Cendant Corp. for $761 million in stock, leaving Cendant with a 15 percent stake. In 2001, Homestore operated the websites HomeBuilder.com, HomeFair.com, Realtor.com, and SpringStreet.com,
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Stephan Schambach


acquired from the Swiss Intershop AG.Meanwhile, the company was renamed to Intershop Communications. The IPO took place on the Neuer Markt in 1998 and on the U.S. NASDAQ technology stock exchange in 2000. Schambach ceded his position as chairmanship of the board in 2003. In 2004, he founded the U.S. company, Demandware Inc., and offered the first ecommerce solution as a cloud service. Demandware was listed at the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) in 2012. In 2016, Demandware was acquired by Salesforce for $2.8 billion dollars.
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Frontier Communications


New York Stock Exchange changed from "CZN" to "FTR". On December 2, 2011, Frontier announced trading of its stock would move from the New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ stock exchange. The stock began trading under the same "FTR" symbol on the NASDAQ exchange at the start of the December 16, 2011 trading day. In May 2009, Frontier announced that it would acquire Verizon Communications' landline assets in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio,
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange


securities listed on both exchanges. At the time, 50 Israeli companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange. A similar memorandum of understanding was signed with The Nasdaq Stock Market in November 2007. NASDAQ at the time had 70 Israeli companies listed on the exchange, with a combined global market capitalization of over US$60 billion. In July 2008, the TASE entered into a memorandum of understanding with NYSE Euronext. At the time seven Israeli companies traded on the NYSE. In November 2008 the TASE and the Shanghai Stock Exchange signed
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August 2013 NASDAQ flash freeze


For three hours on August 22, 2013, trading was halted on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Trading on the exchange stopped at 12:14pm and resumed at 3:25pm, with 35 minutes left of trading for the day. One week after the trading halt NASDAQ OMX credited the freeze to an overloading of the Securities Information Processor (SIP) caused by reconnection issues with the New York Stock Exchange Arca. The freeze received substantial media coverage and generated discussions on the security of increasingly technologically advanced stock exchanges. The event coined the term "flash
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August 2013 NASDAQ flash freeze


. At 12:14pm a technical issue impacted price quote distribution. This refers to be ability of the exchange to accurately provide prices of securities that are being traded. At 12:20pm, all trading was halted on the Nasdaq exchange. There was a subsequent trading halt placed on ‘Tape C’ stocks - Nasdaq listed stocks which may be traded on other exchanges, as quotes could not be provided for those securities. Unlike some purposeful trading halts, options trading did not continue during the flash freeze. In a statement, Nasdaq claimed that
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Consolidated Quotation System


The Consolidated Quotation System (CQS) is the electronic service that provides quotation information for stock traded on the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, and other regional stock exchanges in the United States and also includes issues traded by FINRA member firms in the third market. NASDAQ processes this data and provides it to its subscribers as the Composite Quotation Service. The initials CQS may be used either for the exchange system or the NASDAQ service. In July 1978, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared the Consolidated Quotation Plan effective
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Nasdaq First North


Nasdaq First North is a division of Nasdaq Nordic and an alternative stock exchange for smaller companies in Europe. The market place Nya Marknaden in Stockholm changed name to First North in June 2006 and the First North exchange expanded to the stock exchange on Iceland in January 2007 and Helsinki in April 2007. First North is Nasdaq's European growth market, designed for small and growing companies. Using a less extensive rulebook than the main market, the First North market provides companies more room to focus on their business and development while still taking
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Activision Blizzard


Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game and film holding company based in Santa Monica, California. The company was founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc., the holding company of Activision Publishing, and Vivendi Games, the company is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol ATVI, and since 2015 has been one of the stocks that make up the S&P 500. Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Major League Gaming, and Activision Blizzard
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NASDAQ


growth companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and Dell, and it helped modernize the IPO. Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite, which has been published since its inception. However, its exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index, which tracks the largest 100 companies in terms of market capitalization. In 1992, the Nasdaq Stock Market joined with the London Stock Exchange to form the first intercontinental linkage of securities markets. The National
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Saks, Inc.


Saks, Inc., originally Proffitt's Inc. until 1998, was a Fortune 1000 operator of high-end department stores in the United States under the nameplate Saks Fifth Avenue. It was founded in Birmingham, Alabama. Hudson's Bay Company acquired Saks in November 2013. Proffitt's Inc. began as five Proffitt's stores in the Knoxville, Tennessee, metropolitan area. After going public under the symbol PRFT on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1987, Proffitt's Inc. grew by acquiring several department stores. In 1989 the company purchased 18
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Bremen Exchange


new German stock exchange on the model of NASDAQ in the USA. However, expectations were not met. In March 2003 the Bremen Exchange merged with the Berlin Exchange as the Exchange Bremen-Berlin ("Börse Berlin-Bremen"). In 2005 the operating company of the Bremen Exchange was sold to the Swiss Exchange after the failure of the joint venture with NASDAQ. In 2007, the agreement with the Berlin Exchange was dissolved. Foundation of the Bremen Stock Exchange ("Stiftung Bremer Wertpapierbörse") was created from the
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Adtalem Global Education


. Keller-Taylor was the holding company of CBA Institute in Chicago, which later became Keller Graduate School of Management. In 1987 Keller-Taylor acquired the DeVry Institutes from Bell & Howell and merged with Keller Graduate School of Management. The holding company's name changed to DeVry, Inc. In 1991, DeVry became the first publicly traded education provider with an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In 1995, DeVry moved to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and began trading under the symbol DV ()
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Nasdaq Nordic


to OMX. OMX then acquired the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in January 2005 for €164 million. On 19 September 2006 the Iceland Stock Exchange owner Eignarhaldsfelagid Verdbrefathing (EV) announced it would be acquired by OMX in a deal valuing the company at 250 million SEK. The transaction was completed by the end of the year. The company took a 10% stake in Oslo Børs Holding ASA, the owner of the Oslo Stock Exchange in October 2006. As of September 2016, Nasdaq is not a major shareholder in the Oslo Stock
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Cypress Semiconductor


. The company initially focused on the design and development of high speed CMOS SRAMs, EEPROMs, PAL devices, and TTL logic devices. Two years after going public the company switched from the NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange. In October 2009, the company announced it would switch its listing to the NASDAQ on November 12, 2009. The Cypress subsidiary AgigaTech, Inc. sells non-volatile random-access memory (RAM) and is based in San Diego, CA. It was acquired during the Simtek purchase in August
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Middleby Corporation


NASDAQ over-the-counter market and became listed on the American Stock Exchange in 1988. Its first public offering came in September 1997 with a share price offering of $10 on the NASDAQ. Selim Bassoul became the CEO of Middleby in January 2001. Middleby has acquired numerous businesses in the US and internationally. In 1990, Middleby acquired a majority stake in Asbury Associates Inc., a Filipino manufacturer of food service equipment. It increased its interest to 80% by 1991 and became the company's main export distributor internationally with
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Kraft Foods Inc.


trademark license. It also includes two Wisconsin manufacturing facilities in Medford and Little Chute. The business generated 2009 net revenues of $1.6 billion, with 3,400 employees. After a period of poor share performance and investor criticism, Rosenfeld was forced to announce in 2011 the proposed split of the company into two new entities. Both were to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but the company has recently decided to move to NASDAQ, and the split companies will also trade on NASDAQ. The first entity would retain the Kraft
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Web.com


CEO of Web.com, became a president and board member of Website Pros. The company remained headquartered in Jacksonville, and the merger resulted in a more than three-fold increase in the number of paid subscribers. Website Pros changed its name to Web.com Group Inc. in early 2008. In June, the company began trading as "WWWW" on NASDAQ; executives commemorated the change by closing the stock exchange at Times Square's NASDAQ MarketSite on June 9. Stibel served as president until 2009. Web.com had nearly one million subscribers and
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TradeStation


(DTCC), Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) and the National Futures Association (NFA). It is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and is also a member of the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and NASDAQ OMX. The company’s technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services. Its London-based subsidiary, TradeStation International Ltd, a Financial Services Authority authorized brokerage firm
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SCO Group


On , the SCO Group issued a press release that stated their stock may soon be delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange for failing to issue an annual 10-K report in a timely manner as required by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. In late , after complying with the filing requirements, the NASDAQ switched trading of the SCO Group from "SCOXE" (which denotes a listing which may be delisted soon) back to their original "SCOX" stock symbol. On , SCO received a second delisting notice from NASDAQ. This was
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Dan David (money manager)


an industrial park in Skippack, PA, is the CIO of F.G. Alpha Management, a short-bias hedge fund, and co-founder of GeoInvesting. He has been credited with uncovering fraud in US-listed Chinese companies. David later lobbied Congress to change federal laws regarding the listing of China-based firms on U.S. stock exchanges. His firm GeoInvesting has also engaged in paid stock promotion. GeoInvesting has received payment in exchange for making promotional videos of smallcap companies such as Gridsum Holding Inc, which is a NASDAQ-
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Huron Consulting Group


more than 2,600 employees. In May 2004, Huron filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the initial public offering of its common stock. Huron Consulting Group Inc., the holding company, became a public company trading common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market exchange under the ticker "HURN" in October 2004. On January 9, 2017, Huron acquired Pope Woodhead & Associates, a UK-based life sciences firm that provides market access capabilities to assist clients in developing value propositions for
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Array Networks


on their exchange, he narrowed the choices down to the NASDAQ and the Taiwan Stock Exchange. He chose the Taiwan Stock Exchange for two reasons: Array Networks had a strong business presence in Asia, and Taiwan Stock Exchange's listing fees were at least one third less than the NASDAQ's. In 2011, "CRN Magazine" noted that most of Array Networks' sales is from Asia and that the company is "particularly strong" in China, Japan, and India. In 2008, Array Networks first released its AppVelocity
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Bowflex


Inc. began marketing the first product, Bowflex 2000X in 1986. Instead of conventional weights or pulley machines, the original Bowflex machine used a combination of polymer rods to create constant resistance or tension. Bowflex of America changed its name to Bowflex, Inc, and became a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 1999 the company changed its name to Direct Focus, Inc. and initiated an IPO on Nasdaq. With the success of Bowflex, the company bought the Nautilus Corporation, Schwinn Fitness, and Stairmaster and is now Nautilus
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The Stars Group


The Stars Group Inc. (formerly known as Amaya Inc., Amaya Gaming Group Inc. and Rational Group) is a Canadian gaming and online gambling company traded on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol )/() and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company produces and offers online gaming products and services including poker, casino and sportsbook through its online gaming division, Stars Interactive. These online brands are PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, BetStars and Full Tilt Poker. The Stars Group is also the owner of the PokerStars
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Deborah L. Wince-Smith


U.S. House and Senate. She also serves on or chairs four Cabinet-level advisory groups, including a task force on nuclear energy for the Secretary of Energy. Following her government tenure, Wince-Smith became active in governance of various national scientific labs. Wince-Smith sits on the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory and the University of California President’s Council for Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. she is a member of the Board of Directors of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. and the NASDAQ Stock Exchange
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PlanetOut Inc.


public and became the first gay-directed business to trade its stock on a major United States stock exchange, Nasdaq. The initial public stock offering of 4.65 million shares gained 16% on the first day of trading, closing at $10.40. PlanetOut adopted LGBT as its ticker symbol. In November 2005 PlanetOut Partners acquired LPI Media, the publisher of "The Advocate", "Out Magazine", "HIV Plus", and Alyson Books, becoming the largest LGBT related media company, with multiple print magazines and multiple
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4Licensing Corporation


CEO. In 1992, two subsidiaries were established by the company: The Summit Media Group, Inc. and 4Kids Productions. The company changed its name from Leisure Concepts Inc. to 4kids Entertainment Inc. on November 16, 1995. Although the company changed its name,"Leisure Concepts" still operated as a separate subsidiary of the company, meaning the company may have decided to use the "Leisure Concepts" name for branding purposes. The new century found 4Kids Entertainment Inc., switching from the NASDAQ market and joining the New York Stock Exchange on September
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Data Explorers


sentiment derived from securities lending and short-selling information. Data Explorers COO, Jonathan Morris, announced a partnership with Bloomberg L.P. on 23 Sep 2010 providing global long and short fund flow content to users of the Bloomberg Professional Service On 6 Oct 2010 the Financial Times website www.ft.com included short selling activity from Data Explorers alongside market data on the Company pages and Stock screener Nasdaq OMX announced a new index based on Data Explorers stock loan information to replicate return and volatility characteristic of the Nasdaq-100 Index on May 5, 2011. The index
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NASDAQ


provide a way to perform electronic trades. The Nasdaq Stock Market helped lower the spread (the difference between the bid price and the ask price of the stock) but was unpopular among brokerages which made much of their money on the spread. The NASDAQ Stock Market eventually assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading, but there are still many securities traded in this fashion. As late as 1987, the Nasdaq exchange was still commonly referred to as
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Don Daseke


Don Daseke (born 1940/1941) is an American businessman, and the CEO, chairman and founder of the transportation company, Daseke Inc. Since the foundation of Daseke, Inc. he has helped to grow the company from $30 million in revenue in 2009 to an over $1.6 billion in 2018. In February 2017 Daseke became publicly listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker symbol DSKE. Previously, Daseke held various positions at IBM and founded the companies Walden Residential Properties, BigFatWow! Inc., Sage Telecom and East Teak International
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Change Healthcare


with the majority of McKesson's Information technology unit. McKesson owns approximately 70% of the new company, with the remaining equity stake held by Change Healthcare stockholders. The new company continues to be called Change Healthcare. In October 2018, it was reported that Change Healthcare Corporation hired underwriters and investment banks for a 2018/2019 time-frame initial public offering. On June 27, 2019, Change Healthcare Inc, with stock symbol CHNG, started trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange and offered as many as 49.2 million shares of its stock
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Financial Industry Regulatory Authority


a number of stock markets and exchanges; e.g. American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and the International Securities Exchange (ISE). NASD, the predecessor of FINRA, founded the NASDAQ ("National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations") stock market in 1971. In 2006, NASD demutualized from NASDAQ by selling its ownership interest. The NASD, now FINRA, publishes much educational information for the public and has been publishing and disclosing the education and exam requirements for USA based credentials, charters, designations and certifications that are offered
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Trading halt


exchanges (for example, the American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and New York Stock Exchange). When a United States exchange enacts a regulatory halt for a security, other U.S. exchanges that also trade the security will honor the halt. The NASDAQ and other exchanges currently use 11 codes to specify in more detail why trading has been halted for a security. The Over The Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) currently uses 5 codes. A "non-regulatory" trading halt occurs if "significant order imbalance between buyers and sellers
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Quarterhill


Quarterhill Inc. (formerly WiLan Inc.) is a Canadian public technology holding company, based in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in 1992 as a wireless technology company. In the mid-2000s, it gradually transitioned into a patent licensing company. In 2017, it renamed itself Quarterhill, and is attempting to become a holding company specializing in the Internet of Things. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. WiLan was founded in 1992 by Hatim Zaghloul and Michel Fattouche to commercialize their Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WOFDM
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LivaNova


LivaNova, PLC is a London, England-based medical device manufacturer. The company develops devices used for cardiac surgery and neuromodulation. The company was formed in 2015 by a $2.7B merger between Houston, Texas-based Cyberonics, Inc. and Milan, Italy-based Sorin S.p.a. The company trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol "LIVN". Cyberonics, Inc. was founded in Houston, United States in 1987. Sorin, originally known as Sorin Biomedica and later Sorin Group, was founded in 1956 by
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Carver Bancorp


common stock. On May 21, 1997, Carver listed its stock on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol "CNY". On July 2, 2007, NASDAQ approved the company's application to transfer its common stock listing from the American Stock Exchange back to NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CARV". Carver began trading again on July 10, 2007. From 1948 to 1968, Carver was led by Joseph E. Davis, its first President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). In 1970, Richard Greene
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Inet


to be used by Nasdaq for later trading platforms such as the "Genium Inet trading platform". Today the NASDAQ stock exchange system in New York is called "INET". INET uses a very fast middleware bus that is called Inet. The derivative exchange system Genium Inet uses the same middleware bus Inet. Genium Inet is the successor to the CLICK derivate exchange system. The main difference between INET and Genium Inet is that INET is a stock exchange system (that is not sold), and Genium Inet is a derivative
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Options Clearing Corporation


, Nasdaq GEMX, LLC, Nasdaq ISE, LLC, Nasdaq BX, Inc., Nasdaq MRX, LLC, Nasdaq PHLX, LLC, Nasdaq Options Market, LLC, NYSE American Options, LLC, and NYSE Arca, Inc. Its clearing members serve both professional traders and public customers and are approximately 115 of the largest U.S. broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and non-U.S. securities firms. OCC's goal is to service clearing members and the exchanges through an operating plan that emphasizes timely, reliable, and cost-efficient
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Stock exchange


shares that are listed on a stock exchange. Examples are Australian Securities Exchange (1998), Euronext (merged with New York Stock Exchange), NASDAQ (2002), Bursa Malaysia (2004), the New York Stock Exchange (2005), Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, and the São Paulo Stock Exchange (2007). The Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange can be characterized as quasi-state institutions insofar as they were created by government bodies in China and their leading personnel are directly appointed by the China Securities
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NASDAQ-100


Holdings Corporation, and DENTSPLY International Inc. Prior to the market open on Thursday, April 3, 2014, the Class C common stock of Google, Inc. was added to the index as a result of Google's stock split. This meant the index had 101 components. Later in 2014, additional classes of stock from other index companies were added to the index, bringing the number of constituent securities in the index to 107. On December 12, 2014, NASDAQ announced that American Airlines Group, Electronic Arts, and Lam Research
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Nasdaq Nordic


Exchange holding company, which following a merger is currently called "Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA". Nasdaq has, however, publicly stated its interest in eventually acquiring the Oslo Stock Exchange. OMX acquired the Armenian Stock Exchange and Central Depository in November 2007. In December 2005 OMX started First North, an alternative exchange for smaller companies, in Denmark. The First North exchange expanded to Stockholm in June 2006, Iceland in January 2007 and Helsinki in April 2007. The Markets Technology division of Computershare was acquired in 2006. The
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Mastertrader


investors. Trades were entered by clients through one of the firm's trading platforms, which provided direct access to markets such as the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and Bats Exchange, Inc; as well as to over eighteen order routes and ECN's (Electronic communication network), such as NYSE Arca. The main trading platform it offered was the RealTick platform created by Townsend Analytics. It also offered the eSignal trading platform owned by Interactive Data Corporation, as well as two others. The firm was formerly known as the
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BNN Bloomberg


, it had been the Canadian broadcast partner of CNNfn, an American business news channel which ceased operations in December 2004. BNN features a televised stock ticker with real-time data from the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and many international financial exchanges. In addition to its homebase in Toronto, BNN also operates news bureaus located at the NASDAQ Market Site in New York City's Times Square, and in Calgary. BNN attracts approximately 5,000 regular viewers daily and has a strong viewership outside of the
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Motorola


Motorola's discrete, standard analog and standard logic devices was spun off, recapitalized and established as an independent company named ON Semiconductor. The new company began trading on the NASDAQ on April of the following year. On October 16, 2004, Motorola announced that it would spin off its Semiconductor Products Sector into a separate company called Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.. The new company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 16 of the following year. On Dec. 7, 2015, Freescale Inc. was sold to NXP Semiconductor,
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Innogenetics


commercial Alzheimer's disease research test for β-Amyloid and in 2002 the first commercial test for Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotyping (INNO-LiPA HBV Genotyping). The company was one of the first biotech companies to be listed on a European stock exchange, in 1996 it was the first biotech company listed on EASDAQ, now NASDAQ Europe. Until 2008 Innogenetics had its shares traded on Euronext Brussels. Innogenetics N.V. was acquired by Fujirebio Inc., a Japanese daughter company of Miraca Holdings Inc., in 2010 and changed name
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Isle of Capri Casinos


renamed Anubis II Corporation. In June 1992, it was renamed again to Casino America, Inc. and began trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CSNO. In 1995 it announced a move to trade to the New York Stock Exchange but that did not happen. In September 1998, it became Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. and changed its ticker symbol to "ISLE." The company opened its first casino on August 1, 1992 as a publicly traded corporation. Goldstein was known as the "grandfather of riverboat gaming since
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Saban Capital Group


Festival 2014. In September 13, 2018, "Saban Capital Acquisition Corp." announced the purchase of "Panavision" and "Sim Video International" in a $622 million cash and stock deal. The transaction was aimed at creating a comprehensive production and post-production entity. Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. proposed a change of name to Panavision Holdings Inc., but expected to continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Saban ended up terminating its deal to acquire Panavision on March 1, 2019. On May 5, 2010,
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Busey Bank


Illinois. Announced February 6, 2017; completed July 2, 2017. Mid Illinois Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for South Side Trust and Bank based in Peoria, Illinois. Announced March 13, 2017; completed March 16, 2018. The Banc Ed Corp., the holding company for TheBANK of Edwardsville based in Edwardsville, Illinois. Announced August 22, 2018; completed TBD. First Busey Corporation's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the symbol “BUSE” as of October 1, 1998.
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DSV (company)


UTi Worldwide, Inc. (2015). The deal was closed in January 2016. With headquarters in Hedehusene (near Copenhagen), Denmark, and offices in more than 75 countries, DSV employs 47,000 people and collaborates with partners and agents worldwide. DSV is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (Copenhagen Stock Exchange) and included in the OMXC25 index as one of the 25 most traded stocks. The company is structured in three divisions, Road, Air & Sea and Solutions. Its main activities lie within road transport (trucking)
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Panavision


of "Panavision" and "Sim Video International" in a $622 million cash and stock deal. The transaction is aimed at creating a comprehensive production and post-production entity. Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. intended to change its name to Panavision Holdings Inc. and was expected to continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Saban ended up terminating its deal to acquire Panavision on March 1, 2019. Panavision 3D was a system for presenting 3-D film in a digital cinema. It was a passive stereoscopic 3D system that utilized spectral
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Stock market


money or stock) to close the difference. Once a trade has been made, the details are reported on the "tape" and sent back to the brokerage firm, which then notifies the investor who placed the order. Computers play an important role, especially for program trading. The NASDAQ is an electronic exchange, where all of the trading is done over a computer network. The process is similar to the New York Stock Exchange. One or more NASDAQ market makers will always provide a bid and ask price at which
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NASDAQ


under Börse Berlin. On June 18, 2012, Nasdaq OMX became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative on the eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In November 2016, Nasdaq chief operating officer Adena Friedman was promoted to the role of CEO, becoming the first woman to run a major exchange in the U.S. In 2016, Nasdaq earned $272 million in listings-related revenues. In October 2018, the SEC ruled that the NYSE and Nasdaq did not justify the continued
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Stockholm Stock Exchange


The Stockholm Stock Exchange (), operating under the name Nasdaq Stockholm, is a stock exchange located in Frihamnen, Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863, it has become the primary securities exchange of the Nordic countries. More than 300 companies have been listed for trading. The Stockholm Stock Exchange was acquired by futures exchange OM in 1998. After OM merged with the Helsinki Stock Exchange to form what is now OMX in 2003, the Stockholm and Helsinki exchanges' operations were merged. Since 2008, the Stockholm Stock Exchange has
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