Cautionary

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning NYSE Euronext’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements are based on NYSE Euronext’s current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause NYSE Euronext’s results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: NYSE Euronext’s ability to implement its strategic initiatives, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations, government and industry regulation, interest rate risk and U.S. and global competition, and other factors detailed in NYSE Euronext’s reference document for 2008 (“document de référence”) filed with the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Registered on April 28, 2009 under No. R. 09-031), 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers. In addition, these statements are based on a number of assumptions that are subject to change. Accordingly, actual results may be materially higher or lower than those projected. The inclusion of such projections herein should not be regarded as a representation by NYSE Euronext that the projections will prove to be correct. This press release speaks only as of this date. NYSE Euronext disclaims any duty to update the information herein.

About NYSE

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is the world’s most diverse exchange group, offering a broad and growing array of financial products and services in Europe and the United States that include cash equities, futures, options, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. With over 8,000 listed issues globally, NYSE Euronext's equities markets -- the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext, NYSE Arca, and NYSE Amex -- represent nearly 40% of the world's cash equities trading volume, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world’s second largest derivatives business by value of trading. NYSE Euronext offers comprehensive global commercial technology, connectivity, and market data products and services through its innovative trading solutions unit, NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index. For more information,

NYSE Profile

NYSE Profile of the Week is an investor-friendly online resource that showcases one NYSE-listed company per week and enables companies to self-publish data, investor relations information and marketing messages in a multi-media player on the NYSE Euronext corporate website. The interactive tool is available on the homepage of NYSE Euronext, www.nyx.com which attracts nearly two million unique visitors per month and serves as a highly visible venue to showcase a listed company’s stock, products and services. Information and materials presented by featured listed companies will be available for convenient access and retrieval after that first week. General Electric will be the first company featured, followed by other NYSE-listed companies in the following weeks.

NYSE Alliance Network

The NYSE Alliance Network is an online resource where NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed companies can market products and services to employees of other NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed companies at a loyalty discount. “The NYSE Alliance Network gives our listed companies an important new, complimentary benefit to listing on our market,” said Mr. Cutler. “The ability to leverage our listed-company base, which includes many of the world’s leading brands, coupled with best-in-class technology will give our listed company community unparalleled access to a wide variety of products and services.”
In the NYSE Alliance Network, NYSE-listed companies will be able to open up new markets and generate new revenue streams while benefiting their employees at the same time. Employee discounts of up to 20% will be available through the network. NYSE Euronext is launching the new service in partnership with a leading e-commerce expert that manages employee loyalty programs for more than 25 million employees through some 25,000 affiliated merchants.

NYSE Connect

YSE Connect, a private online community built exclusively for NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed company executives, is being developed in conjunction with Passenger, a Los Angeles-based leader in creating and managing private online communities that drive user advocacy and insight. The first of its kind among exchanges, NYSE Connect provides NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed company executives faster access to market information and economic reports via webcasts, surveys and blogs, while also enabling them to collaborate with peers by sharing ideas and best practices.
“In a collaborative marketplace, static information isn’t enough,” said Scott R. Cutler, EVP, and Head of Listings, Americas , NYSE Euronext. “Building upon current data and information assets, listed company management can now communicate online via NYSE Connect, which offers unprecedented access to essential information, people, and capital in a high-level, exclusive forum.”
NYSE Connect will feature private webcasts and live chat sessions as well as online polls and surveys that enable NYSE-listed company executives to form collective views and opinion on industry best practices, current news and issues, in addition to engaging in dialogue with top analysts, the NYSE and peers.

NYSE Euronext

- NYSE Connect: the first exchange-powered, private online network for listed issuers-- NYSE Alliance Network: a unique online retail marketplace for employees of listed companies-- NYSE Profile of the Week: a web-based showcase for listed company news, highlights and events
NEW YORK , June 3, 2009 –NYSE Euronext (NYX) today unveiled the launch of NYSE Connect, an innovative online community exclusively for executives of NYSE-and NYSE Amex-listed companies. The announcement of this new listed-issuer platform coincides with the launch of two other innovative web-based offerings — the NYSE Alliance Network, and Profile of the Week — designed to provide unique benefits to listed company management and employees and add to NYSE Euronext’s growing portfolio of value-added issuer products and services. These new digital offerings complement other issuer services launched by NYSE Euronext in recent months such as the NYSE Market Access Center (MAC ).
“Our customers want new pathways to access information and share ideas, to connect with stakeholders and to drive incremental business and revenue,” said Joe Mecane, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, US Execution, NYSE Euronext. “Our new service introductions address those interests and enhance our issuer services platform. Our goal is to leverage technology and information for the benefit of our world class family of listed companies, providing this community a content rich forum, advanced networking capabilities and new commercial opportunities that are unrivaled by any other marketplace.”

NYSE

In the mid-1960s, the NYSE Composite Index (NYSE: NYA) was created, with a base value of 50 points equal to the 1965 yearly close, to reflect the value of all stocks trading at the exchange instead of just the 30 stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. To raise the profile of the composite index, in 2003 the NYSE set its new base value of 5,000 points equal to the 2002 yearly close.

Trading

The New York Stock Exchange (sometimes referred to as "the Big Board") provides a means for buyers and sellers to trade shares of stock in companies registered for public trading. The NYSE is open for trading Monday through Friday between 9:30–16:00 ET, with the exception of holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.
On the trading floor, the NYSE trades in a continuous auction format, where traders can execute stock transactions on behalf of investors. They will gather around the appropriate post where a specialist broker, who is employed by an NYSE member firm (that is, he/she is not an employee of the New York Stock Exchange), acts as an auctioneer in an open outcry auction market environment to bring buyers and sellers together and to manage the actual auction. They do on occasion (approximately 10% of the time) facilitate the trades by committing their own capital and as a matter of course disseminate information to the crowd that helps to bring buyers and sellers together.
As of January 24, 2007, all NYSE stocks can be traded via its electronic Hybrid Market (except for a small group of very high-priced stocks). Customers can now send orders for immediate electronic execution, or route orders to the floor for trade in the auction market. In the first three months of 2007, in excess of 82% of all order volume was delivered to the floor electronically.[21]
The right to directly trade shares on the exchange is conferred upon owners of the 1366 "seats". The term comes from the fact that up until the 1870s NYSE members sat in chairs to trade. In 1868, the number of seats was fixed at 533, and this number was increased several times over the years. In 1953, the exchange stopped at 1366 seats. These seats are a sought-after commodity as they confer the ability to directly trade stock on the NYSE. Seat prices have varied widely over the years, generally falling during recessions and rising during economic expansions. The most expensive inflation-adjusted seat was sold in 1929 for $625,000, which, today, would be over six million dollars. In recent times, seats have sold for as high as $4 million in the late 1990s and $1 million in 2001. In 2005, seat prices shot up to $3.25 million as the exchange was set to merge with Archipelago and become a for-profit, publicly traded company. Seat owners received $500,000 cash per seat and 77,000 shares of the newly formed corporation. The NYSE now sells one-year licenses to trade directly on the exchange.

Exchange

On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped 508 points, a 22.6% loss in a single day, the second-biggest one-day drop the exchange had experienced, prompting officials at the exchange to invoke for the first time the "circuit breaker" rule to halt all trading. This was a very controversial move and led to a quick change in the rule; trading now halts for an hour, two hours, or the rest of the day when the DJIA drops 10, 20, or 30 percent, respectively. In the afternoon, the 10% and 20% drops will halt trading for a shorter period of time, but a 30% drop will always close the exchange for the day. The rationale behind the trading halt was to give investors a chance to cool off and reevaluate their positions. Black Monday was followed by Terrible Tuesday, a day in which the Exchange's systems did not perform well and some people had difficulty completing their trades.
There was a panic similar to many with a fall of 7.2% in value (554.26 points) on October 27, 1997 prompted by falls in Asian markets, from which the NYSE recovered quickly.
On January 26, 2000, an altercation during filming of the music video for Sleep Now in the Fire, which was directed by Michael Moore, caused the doors of the exchange to be closed and the band, Rage Against the Machine, to be escorted from the site by security,[11] after band members attempted to gain entry into the exchange.[12] Trading on the exchange floor, however, continued uninterrupted.[13]

Security after the September 11 attacks
The NYSE was closed from September 11 until September 17,

Events

The exchange was closed shortly after the beginning of World War I (July 31, 1914), but it partially re-opened on November 28 of that year in order to help the war effort by trading bonds, and completely reopened for stock trading in mid-December.
On September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded on Wall Street outside the NYSE building, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found. The NYSE building and some buildings nearby, such as the JP Morgan building, still have marks on their facades caused by the bombing.
The Black Thursday crash of the Exchange on October 24, 1929, and the sell-off panic which started on Black Tuesday, October 29, are often blamed for precipitating the Great Depression of 1929. In an effort to try to restore investor confidence, the Exchange unveiled a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public on October 31, 1938.
On October 1, 1934, the exchange was registered as a national securities exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a president and a thirty-three member board. On February 18, 1971 the non-profit corporation was formed, and the number of board members was reduced to twenty-five.

Stock Exc

The NYSE announced its plans to acquire Archipelago on April 21, 2005, in a deal intended to reorganize the NYSE as a publicly traded company. NYSE's governing board voted to acquire rival Archipelago on December 6, 2005, and become a for-profit, public company. It began trading under the name NYSE Group on March 8, 2006. A little over one year later, on April 4, 2007, the NYSE Group completed its merger with Euronext, the European combined stock market, thus forming the NYSE Euronext, the first transatlantic stock exchange.

History

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792, when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by 24 stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. On March 8, 1817, the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president (for other presidents, see List of presidents of the New York Stock Exchange).
The first central location of the Exchange was a room, rented in 1817 for $200 a month, located at 40 Wall Street. After that location was destroyed in the Great Fire of New York (1835), the Exchange moved to a temporary headquarters. In 1863, the New York Stock & Exchange Board changed to its current name, the New York Stock Exchange. In 1865, the Exchange moved to 10-12 Broad Street.

NYS E

ew York Stock Exchange is an equity (stock) exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York, USA. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar value of its listed companies' securities.[3] As of October 2008, the combined capitalization of all domestic New York Stock Exchange listed companies was US$10.1 trillion.[4]
The NYSE is operated by NYSE Euronext, which was formed by the NYSE's 2007 merger with the fully-electronic stock exchange Euronext. The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of four rooms used for the facilitation of trading. A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street, between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978,[5] as was the 11 Wall Street building.[2][6][7]

Stockmarket

Stock market talk is everywhere, from TV and radio, to the newspapers and the web. But what does it mean when people say that "the market turned in a great performance today?" What is "the market" anyway?


As it turns out, when most people talk about "the market," they are actually referring to an index. With the growing importance of the stock market in our society, the names of indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite have become part of our everyday vocabulary. This tutorial will define what an index is, discuss some of the major stock indexes and explain how you can invest in the stock market using index funds. (If you aren't familiar with the stock market and mutual funds, we suggest that you check out our Stock Basics Tutorial and Mutual Fund Basics Tutorial before reading on.)

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But, wait a minute. Isn't the whole purpose of mutual funds to coax us lowly investors into enlisting the help of professionals who can achieve superior returns? That's the idea the mutual fund industry has been trying to sell us for many years. The truth is that a majority of mutual funds fail to outperform the S&P 500. The exact stats vary depending on the year, but on average, anywhere from 50%-80% of funds get beat by the market. The main reason for this is the costs that mutual funds charge. A fund's return is the total return of the portfolio minus the fees an investor pays for management and fund expenses. If a fund charges 2%, then you have to outperform the market by that amount just to be even. Here's where index funds enter the picture. Their main advantage is lower management fees than you would get from a regular mutual fund. An average non-index fund has an expense ratio of around 1.5%, whereas many index funds have an expense ratio of around 0.2%! The reason the costs are lower is because an index fund is not actively managed. Fund managers only need to maintain the appropriate weightings to match the index performance - a technique known as passive management. The deceptive thing about the "passive" label is that most indexes are actively selected. Take the S

IndexInvesting

ndexes are great tools for telling us what direction the market is taking and what trends are prevailing. So, how do we buy into these investment vehicles? Imagine the costs associated with buying the 6,500+ stocks that make up the Wilshire Total Market Index. Commission fees alone would run into the tens of thousands!




If you've been paying attention throughout this tutorial, you've probably noticed we mention index funds more than once. Index funds are simply mutual funds that based on an index and mirror its performance. The thinking behind index funds has some academic substance to it. For years, many academics have been saying that it is impossible to consistently beat the market without raising your risk level - a theory known as Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). So in 1975, John Bogle took the stance that "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and created the first

Investopedia explains

The origins of the exchange date all the way back to 1792. Because of its long operating history the NYSE is home to the majority of the world’s largest and best-known companies. Foreign-based corporations can list their shares on the NYSE if they adhere to certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules, known as listing standards.The NYSE opens for trading Monday through Friday 9:30a.m. to 4:00p.m. (ET), closing early on rare occasions. The market also shuts down during nine holidays throughout the year.

NYSE

A stock exchange based in New York City, which is considered the largest equities-based exchange in the world based on total market capitalization of its listed securities. Formerly run as a private organization, the NYSE became a public entity in 2005 following the acquisition of electronic trading exchange Archipelago. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange is now called NYSE Euronext, following a merger with the European exchange in 2007.Also known as the "Big Board", the NYSE relied for many years on floor trading only, using the open outcry system. Today, more than half of all NYSE trades are conducted electronically, although floor traders are still used to set pricing and deal in high volume institutional trading.

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Moreover, renewed interest by retail/institutional investors in blue-chip scrips affected investor sentiment positively throughout the day.The KSE-100 index was positive in the opening, 3.44 points up and sustained the upward movement till the end of the day, closing at 6,894.62 points with a gain of 16.48 points.Trading activity was enhanced as compared to the last trading session while the ready market turnover increased to 125.067 million shares from 93.595 million shares of last session. Trading value of the market inched up to Rs 5.645b as compared to Rs 4.069b of last trading session.Market capitalisation stood up to Rs 2.045tr on Friday against last session’s Rs 2.040tr on Thursday. Out of 275 active companies at the Karachi stock market, 143 companies gained value, 120 lost while worth of the shares of 12 cos remained unchanged.

Stock market fails

KARACHI - Buying activity was witnessed at the Karachi Stock Exchange after a gap of four trading sessions as the KSE-100 index gained 16 points on Friday.The statement from SECP to reinitiate the process to provide margin financing to the investor community turned out to be beneficial for the stock market as index recovered a little bit. But later, the selling pressure turned the index towards negative zone. Finally after the tug of war between bull and bear, the benchmark index closed the day after adding 16 points to the index with healthy volumes of 125 million shares. Despite few points gained the top ten stocks more or less remain in red.

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US Dollar flaw is ready to go on in the upcoming week as an upward correction in risky assets gives capital out of risk free assets in seek of yield. Last week, the US Dollar Index decisively broke under an increasing trend line that had directed prices higher from mid-December, showing the way for an extensive pullback in opposition to the range of main currencies. In fact, the US dollar average value in opposition to its major counterparts is at present -93.7 percent inversely related with the MSCI World Stock Index