NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as simply the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange.

"NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. The NASDAQ has more trading volume than any other electronic stock exchange in the world.. The exchange is owned by NASDAQ OMX Group, which also owns the OMX stock exchange network. NASDAQ was founded in Feb 4, 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers(NASD), who divested themselves of it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001

FORM OF ORGANISATION : NASDAQ is an association . VOLUMES:US$982 billion (Feb 2011)

SYSTEM : Electronic automated system.

INDEXES: NASDAQ Composite NASDAQ-100 NASDAQ Biotechnology Index

NASDAQ has a pre-market session from 7:00am to 9:30am, A normal trading session from 9:30am to 4:00pm Post-market session from 4:00pm to 8:00pm

How many companies are listed on NASDAQ? It delivers trading exchange technology and public company services across six continents with more then 3600 listed companies

1st Indian company listed on NASDAQ? INFOSYS was the 1st company listed on NASDAQ in the year 1999

EQUITIES

1.NASDAQ 1.BX option 2.BX 2.NOM 3.PSX 3.PHLX 4.Exchange traded funds

Options

FUTURES
1.NFX

NASDAQ quotes are available at three levels: Level 1 :shows the highest bid and lowest

offerthe inside quote. Level 2 :shows all public quotes of market makers together with information of market dealers wishing to sell or buy stock and recently executed orders. Level 3: is used by the market makers and allows them to enter their quotes and execute orders

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