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By Kimberly Amadeo. NASDAQ originally stood for the National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system. Today, NASDAQ is the largest electronic equities exchange in the U.S. That's thanks to its 2008 merger with OMX ABO, a Stockholm-based operator of exchanges located in the Nordic and Baltic regions.The new company, NASDAQ OMX Group, lists stocks of over 3,800 companies.he NASDAQ is an exchange, like the New York Stock Exchange and the newly creates BATS. Unlike the NYSE, it also reports the performance of all the companies that have listed with it. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the MSC I are indices that track the performance of selected stocks.
The NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) is a stock market index of the common stocks and similar securities (e.g. ADRs, tracking stocks, limited partnership interests) listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Average and S&P 500 it is one of the three most-followed indices in US stock markets. The composition of the NASDAQ Composite is heavily weighted towards information technology companies.