NYSE MKT LLC, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange ( AMEX ), is an American stock exchange situated in New York City, New York.

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

* Allied Waste Industries Inc, stock symbol on NYSE

When the price of a stock on the NYSE and its corresponding futures contract on OCX are out of sync, one can buy the less expensive one and sell it to the more expensive market.

The law requires companies listed on the major stock exchanges ( NYSE, NASDAQ ) to have a majority of independent directors -- directors who are not otherwise employed by the firm or in a business relationship with it.

* CDE, the NYSE stock symbol for Coeur d ' Alene Mines

* Kroger, NYSE stock symbol

* OM Group, a chemistry firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, stock symbol NYSE: OMG

In some early PBM systems, six sided dice rolling was simulated by designating a specific stock and a future date and once that date passed, the players would determine an actions outcome using the sales in hundreds value for specific stocks on a specific date and then dividing the NYSE published sales in hundreds by six, using the remainder as the dice result.

In the first year of the new century, the Big Board, as some termed the NYSE, was described as the world's " largest and most prestigious stock market.

Components of the Dow trade on both the NASDAQ OMX and the NYSE Euronext, two of the largest stock market companies.

The largest stock market in the United States, by market capitalization, is the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ).

* Advance Auto Parts ( NYSE stock symbol: AAP ), vehicle parts retailer in Virginia, United States

* NYSE stock ticker for Nokia Corporation, based in Finland

* The Walt Disney Company ( NYSE stock symbol " DIS ")

* Morgan Stanley, a US investment bank with NYSE stock ticker symbol MS, and the domain MS. com

When first implemented, the rule change did not apply to companies with one or two letter symbols, but subsequently any stock was able to move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq without changing its symbol.

On January 8, 2007, NCR announced that it would spin-off Teradata as an independently traded company, and this spin-off was completed October 1 of the same year, with Teradata trading under the NYSE stock symbol TDC.

Wang stock had been listed in the New York Stock Exchange, but this maneuver was not quite acceptable under NYSE's rules, and Wang was forced to delist with NYSE and relist on the more liberal American Stock Exchange.

Founded in 1957 as Fairchild Camera and Instrument ( NYSE stock symbol FCI ), it was a pioneer in transistor and integrated circuit manufacturing.

In 2000 Embraer made simultaneous initial public offerings on the NYSE and BM & F Bovespa stock exchanges.

The stock ticker symbols are the same as that used while the company was on the NYSE.

* Embarq ( NYSE stock symbol ), a local exchange carrier in the United States

When the Dow Jones Transportation Average stock market index for the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) was created in 1884, Western Union was one of the original eleven all-American companies tracked.

* Brunswick Corporation's NYSE ticker symbol

* U. S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company whose NYSE ticker symbol is USB

Daimler AG was listed with the symbol " DAI " on the NYSE, giving the Justice Department jurisdiction over the German car maker's payments in countries around the globe.

* AutoZone, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AZO

* Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation ( NYSE symbol ), a loan and mortgage company

** Ticker symbol for ProShares Ultra Russell2000 at NYSE Arca

Borders Group, Inc. ( former NYSE ticker symbol BGP ) was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

CA, Inc., which trades under the symbol CA, moved from the NYSE to the Nasdaq in April 2008 and kept its two-letter symbol.

* Circuit City, an American electronics retailer whose former NYSE ticker symbol was CC

* Ingersoll Rand ( NYSE trading symbol IR )

* Credit Suisse's NYSE symbol

* MEG, NYSE symbol for Media General

ChoicePoint ( previous NYSE ticker symbol CPS ) was a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that acted as a private intelligence service to government and industry.

In February, 2011, in the wake of an announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse, speculation developed that Nasdaq and IntercontinentalExchange ( ICE ) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE.

* 9: 30 AM The NYSE, Mercantile Exchange, and NASDAQ open for the first time after the longest hiatus in history after two minutes of silence.

Since 1996, Steinway Musical Instruments has been traded at the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) under the abbreviation LVB, for Ludwig van Beethoven.

The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) is a physical exchange, also referred to as a listed exchange – only stocks listed with the exchange may be traded, with a hybrid market for placing orders both electronically and manually on the trading floor.

Entities under the SEC ’ s authority include securities exchanges with physical trading floors such as the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ), self-regulatory organizations ( SROs ) such as the National Association of Securities Dealers ( NASD ), the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board ( MSRB ), online trading platforms such as The NASDAQ Stock Market ( NASDAQ ) and ATS, and any other persons ( e. g., securities brokers ) engaged in transactions for the accounts of others.

Additionally, the NASDAQ and NYSE have approved a rule mandating a 10-day quiet period after a Secondary Offering and a 15-day quiet period both before and after expiration of a " lock-up agreement " for a securities offering.

The total market value of NYSE ( 7. 2 ) and NASDAQ ( 1. 8 ) companies at that time was only $ 9 trillion, for an overall market loss of $ 9. 3 trillion.

In June 2004, the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) imposed a penalty of a censure and $ 140, 000 fine for incorrectly using customers ’ margined securities as collateral for cash management loans.

In September 2004, the firm paid a $ 19 million dollar fine imposed by NYSE for failure to deliver prospectuses to customers in registered offerings, inaccurate reporting of certain program trading information, short sale violations, failures to fingerprint new employees and failure to timely file exchange forms.

* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.

In 2005, Albright declined to run for re-election to the board in the aftermath of the Richard Grasso compensation scandal, in which Grasso, the chairman of the NYSE Board of Directors, had been granted $ 187. 5 million in compensation, with little governance by the board on which Albright sat.

* Gerald J. Ford, most recently the Chairman of the Trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and former Chairman and CEO of the once NYSE publicly-traded company Liberate Investors, and former Chairman and CEO of the California-based Golden State Bancorp ( sold to Citigroup in 2002 for $ 6. 1 billion ), is a graduate of Pampa High School and Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

At that point, the fund's 10 million shares will begin to trade on a secondary market, typically the NYSE or the AMEX for American closed-end funds.