Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, Sept. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

In honor of United Nations week, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square to ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite — 4 Times Square — 43^rd & Broadway — Broadcast Studio

When:

Monday, September 17^th, 2012 — 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET

Contact:

Tobi Jaiyesimi, Deputy Chief of Staff
(718) 596-0100
tobijaiy@gmail.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at:
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries:

Hakeem Jeffries was sworn in as a member of the New York State Assembly in January 2007. He quickly emerged as a champion for working families and a fierce advocate for reform of state government in Albany.

During his time in the state legislature, Assemblyman Jeffries has sponsored countless bills, including measures that strengthen tenant regulations, protect the civil liberties of law-abiding New Yorkers during police encounters, increase the availability of mortgage information to potential homebuyers, and facilitate the successful re-entry of formerly incarcerated individuals. To learn more about Assemblymember Jeffries, visit http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Hakeem-Jeffries/.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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