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NASDAQ, originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations,is a stock exchange run by the National Association of Securities Dealers. When it began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market. Since 1999, it is the largest American stock exchange with over half the companies traded in the United States listed. NASDAQ is made up of the NASDAQ National Market and the NASDAQ SmallCap Market.
The main exchange is located in the United States of America with a branch exchange in Japan. (One in Canada was open from December 2001 to July 12, 2004.) They also have associations with exchanges in Hong Kong and Europe.
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NASDAQ allows multiple market participants to trade through its electronic communications networks (ECNs) structure, increasing competitionCompetition characterises a biochemical, ecologic, economic, political, or sporting activity whereby two or more individuals or groups strive antagonistically against one another for some reward. The reward could consist of: fame, esteem, reputation, or r. The Small Order Execution System (SOES) is another NASDAQ feature, introduced in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe, to ensure that in 'turbulent' market conditions small market orders are not forgotten but are automatically processed. On July 17July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. Events 180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa, executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that pa, 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja the NASDAQ stock index closed above the 1,000 mark for the first time. The index peaked at 5048.62 on March 10March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). There are 296 days remaining. Events 241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War. 1496 Christoph, 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, which signaled the beginning of the end of the dot-comDot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. com companies were the collection of start-up companies selling products or services using or somehow related to the Internet. They proliferated in the late 1990s dot-com boom a speculative frenzy of investment in boom.
In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge on November 9, 1998 approved a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claimed they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
In 2002 NASDAQ adopted Super Montage or SUMO, which allows market makers show up to 5 levels of their prices. Eventually, SOES was replaced by SUMO.
NASDAQ was closed from September 11 to 14, 2001 as a result of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.
Shares in NASDAQ are traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol= }&selected= } }].
