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42 year of the NASDAQ stock exchange

8 February 1971 the first electronic stock exchange NASDAQ was launched. At that time, stocks were traded on it. 250 companies. The Nasdaq Composite was set at 100. The history of the stock exchange dates back to 1968 year, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) decided to organize an automated securities trading market. Thanks to the growth of the US economy in 1989-2000 years, as well as the rapid development of information technology, the exchange developed rapidly, and the number of transactions increased significantly. NASDAQ OMX ranks second in the world after NYSE Euronext in terms of capitalization of traded companies (about $4,6 trillion at the end 2012 of the year).

Swedish stock exchange paralyzed with buy lot -6 futures

It all started with, that yesterday morning in the computer system of the Stockholm Stock Exchange (Stockholm Stock Exchange) an unusually large lot for purchase appeared 4294967290 stock index futures. The stock index is calculated based on stock quotes 30 largest companies by capitalization. Each futures has a value of almost 107000 crown. In this way, the total cost of the lot is 459 561 500 030 000 crown, that is almost 460 trillion crowns! Lot price in 131 times the gross domestic product of Sweden.

A little about everything

I greet everyone! First of all, I want to draw your attention, that this weekend americans are changing the time, therefore for residents of Russia (

In the knockout – behind 9 seconds

WHAT'S BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS CYBER MURDER OF THE IPO OF THE AMERICAN COMPANY BATS 23 MARTHA 2012 OF THE YEAR, AND WHAT CONSEQUENCES THIS MAY HAVE FOR STOCK RIES…

Forex or stocks?

Forex or stocks?As a preface, I decided to publish an article, which I found on the internet. There are quite a few such articles on the Internet., And

Brief look

Hello, New Year's holidays are approaching, and I finally waited until the stitches were removed and returned home. There are still a couple of weeks until the end of the year, and in t

Anonymous rejects call for attack on New York Stock Exchange

As a follow-up to the previous post, the Promotion – Take over Wall Street (Occupy Wall Street ) Last Sunday, the YouTube channel TheAnonMessage distributed a video statement. , in which he announced an attack on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Yesterday, other members of the Anonymous movement called the action a fake., behind which law enforcement agencies stand. Unknown, administering the video channel TheAnonMessage, expressed their indignation at the actions of the authorities in relation to the civil protest action "Occupy Wall Street". Share, the essence of which is to block the street, where the largest stock exchange is located - NYSE, in order to draw attention to the fundamental problems of the economy, started 17 September and continues to this day. 1 October police arrested order 700 participants of the action, what, quite possible, and prompted the "anonymous" to declare war on the New York Stock Exchange. DDoS-attack on the NYSE site scheduled for 10 October.

The robots are to blame

When the market moved up, on the empty place, everything was fine, investors happily rubbed their palms and moaned speculators-bears. But it was worth …

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