The NASDAQ , initials of National Association off Securities Dealers Automated Quotations , is the more important second, in volume treated, gone of actions of the the United States, behind the New York Stock Exchange and the largest electronic market of actions of the world.
The index NASDAQ , also called the NASDAQ, is the Market index which measures the performance of the market of actions NASDAQ.
Origin
It was the electronic primary market of financial instruments to open in the world, in 1971. It was founded by the NASD ( National Security Dealers Association , which one can translate by “American national association of the stockbrokers”). Its name is, at the beginning, the Acronyme of National Association off Securities Dealers Automated Quotations , that is to say thus: automated quotations of NASD .
Shareholding
Its legal form is that of a business enterprise, under the name of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc . NASD sold part of its participation in this company in 2000 and 2001 and the action Nasdaq (code: NDAQ ) was introduced in 2002 on the NASDAQ.The Yahoo site finances list the most important shareholders.
Values with dimensions
Regarded a long time as an anteroom of the New York Stock Exchange for the companies not yet enough important to be with dimensions on this last, it thus naturally accommodated in the years 1980 and 1990 the great majority of the incipient technological companies. It dimensions approximately 3.200 values today. The exchanges - uninterrupted - are done on several waiters gathered in a single part.If the companies dimensioned with the NASDAQ are sometimes related to the world of Internet or the Informatique, they cover all the economic sectors however. One finds there many large companies of all the branches of industry: Bank, Distribution, Biotechnology S, Industry, Transport S, etc
Index NASDAQ
The Market index NASDAQ is calculated by taking account of all the companies listed on the market of actions NASDAQ and not by taking account only of one subset of these companies as it is the case for several other market indexes. In index NASDAQ, the importance of each company is proportional to its Market cap. This index is rather volatile because the market of actions NASDAQ contains several companies of high technology whose value of the actions is more volatile than the value of the actions of the companies of the traditional economy.
Data-processing equipment
The systems of quotation of the NASDAQ, are sheltered by Joseph R. Hardiman Technology Center , a building very out of glass in the industrial park of Trumbull, a small town of the Connecticut.Its capacity to treat the exchanges uninterrupted comes from waiters which can record up to 900 transactions at the second, installed in a long dark part of the basement.
See too
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Official site
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