Wall Street Rocks Along With NYPD and Port Authority to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, Nov. 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Wall Street Rocks, a collaboration of employees in the financial, technology and entertainment industries focused on supporting heroic Americans who serve our nation, and NYPD will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

In honor of the occasion, the following Wall Street Rocks representatives will ring the Opening Bell:

James Macedonio, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley George Chrisafis, Director in Prime Services, Credit Suisse Peter Carrara, Managing Director, RBC Leslie Kirby, Associate Partner, Citihub Paul Chew, Partner & Regional Head, Citihub Lt. Kenneth Beatty, NYPD

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Thursday, November 1st, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET

Wall Street Rocks Contact:

Marie Assante [phone] [e-mail]

NYPD Contact: Lt. Kenneth Beatty [e-mail]

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp [phone] [e-mail]

Feed Information:

Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463

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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 Wall Street Rocks:

Wall Street Rocks is a non-profit organization with collaborative efforts from employees in the financial, technology and entertainment industries focused on supporting Americans who have served our nation including veterans and first responders, through entertainment-based events.

About NYPD:

Please visit www.nyc.gov/nypd.

About NASDAQ OMX Group:

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 23 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 99.99+% 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 (www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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