On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

It is owned and operated by the NASDAQ OMX Group, the stock of which was listed on its own stock exchange beginning July 2, 2002, under the ticker symbol.

When the NASDAQ stock exchange began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market.

The NASDAQ helped lower the spread ( the difference between the bid price and the ask price of the stock ) but somewhat paradoxically was unpopular among brokerages because they made much of their money on the spread.

NASDAQ was the successor to the over-the-counter ( OTC ) system of trading.

As late as 1987, the NASDAQ exchange was still commonly referred to as the OTC in media and also in the monthly Stock Guides issued by Standard & Poor's Corporation.

NASDAQ was also the first stock market in the United States to start trading online.

However, its exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside the NASDAQ 100 Financial Index.

EASDAQ ( European Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System ) founded originally as a European equivalent to NASDAQ, it was purchased by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Eur03, it shut down operations as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble.

In 2007, NASDAQ Europe was revived as Equiduct and is currently operating under Börse Berlin.

Its stock symbol at that point, SGID. pk, was canceled, and new stock was issued on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SGIC.

NASDAQ was down 6. 84 %, S & P500 4. 93 %.

ObjectShare ( NASDAQ: OBJS ) was traded publicly until 1999, when it was delisted and dissolved.

Volvo was delisted from NASDAQ in June 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm exchange.

The 3DO Company ( formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange ), also known as 3DO ( short for three-dimensional operating system ), was a video game company.

The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S & P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ 100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.

The work was so important that Acorn spun off the design team in 1990 into a new company called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Advanced RISC Machines became ARM Ltd when its parent company, ARM Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.

68 percent of Israeli NASDAQ companies were founded and / or are led by Technion graduates, and 74 percent of managers in Israel's electronic industries hold Technion degrees.

IBM Internet Security Systems is a security software provider which was founded in 1994 as Internet Security Systems, and is often known simply as ISS or ISSX ( after its former NASDAQ ticker symbol ).

Philadelphia Stock Exchange ( PHLX ), now known as NASDAQ OMX PHLX, is the oldest stock exchange in the United States, founded in 1790.

* VASCO — VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a public company with the NASDAQ symbol VDSI, founded in 1997

Audiovox Corporation ( NASDAQ: VOXX ) is an American consumer electronics company founded in 1965 and headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, specializing in low-cost consumer electronic equipment.

WowWee Group Limited, an Optimal Group Inc. ( NASDAQ: OPMR ), is a Hong Kong-based company founded by Richard and Peter Yanofsky.

American Management Systems ( previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY ) was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration.

* Elbit Vision Systems ()-a developer and manufacturer of Automated Optical Inspection solutions for textile manufacturing processes, founded in 1992 and had an initial public offering on the NASDAQ in 1996.

Daystar Technologies, Inc., should not be confused with DayStar Technologies, Inc. ( NASDAQ: DSTI ) founded in 1997 which manufactures CIGS Solar PV cells.

It was founded in 1998 and acquired by NASDAQ OMX in 2006.

Redback Networks was founded in August, 1996 by Gaurav Garg and Asher Waldfogel, and traded on NASDAQ under the symbol RBAK.

Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen ( later sold to Juniper for more than $ 3. 5 billion ) and is a publicly-held company ( in NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FTNT ) Fortinet's position as the revenue leader in Unified Threat Management ( UTM ) has been validated by IDC several times over.

* 1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

In 1971, the company was taken public on NASDAQ under the ticker NOBE ( Nordstrom Best ).

The next important step in facilitating day trading was the founding in 1971 of NASDAQ — a virtual stock exchange on which orders were transmitted electronically.

He was the first President and CEO of the NASDAQ from 1971 to 1987.

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.

The exchange is owned by NASDAQ OMX Group, which also owns the OMX stock exchange network.

Over the years, NASDAQ became more of a stock market by adding trade and volume reporting and automated trading systems.

NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe listed a contract to trade offsets generated by a CDM carbon project called Certified Emission Reductions.

* On June 8, 2009, General Motors and Citigroup were replaced by The Travelers Companies and Cisco Systems, which became the third company traded on the NASDAQ to be part of the Dow.

That share probably will increase to 18 percent by 2010 as more investment banks bypass the NYSE and NASDAQ and pair buyers and sellers of securities themselves, according to data compiled by Boston-based Aite Group LLC, a brokerage-industry consultant.

On November 24, 2008, ImClone was formally acquired by Eli Lilly, with all NASDAQ IMCL shares tendered for $ 6. 5 billion ($ 70 / share ).

After buying the team, COMSAT organized its Denver sports franchises under a separate subsidiary, Ascent Entertainment Group Inc., which went public in 1995, with 80 % of its stock bought by COMSAT and the other 20 % available on NASDAQ.

In April 1996, Orange went public and floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, majority owned by Hutchison ( 48. 22 %), followed by BAe ( 21. 1 %).

* Unlisted Trading Privileges-in finance ( securities trading )- the statutory basis for, and by extension, an electronic network which carries quotes and trades for the New York-based NASDAQ stock exchange.

* Stock market downturn of 2002: U. S. indices continue heavy losses from the previous week and fall by over three percent on the day, NASDAQ falling below its July 23 low.

Chicopee Savings Bank is run by Chicopee Bancorp, which operates trades as CBNK on the NASDAQ exchange.

ASX Trade is a NASDAQ OMX ultra-low latency trading platform based on NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET system, which is used by many exchanges around the world.

A rolling ticker provides real-time updates on share prices on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX, as well as market indices, news summaries, and weather updates by NBC Meteorologists ( prior to March 27, 2006, all of CNBC's weather reports were provided by AccuWeather ).