The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked at 5, 048 in March 2000, reflecting the high point of the dot-com bubble.

The technology-heavy NASDAQ stock market peaked on March 10, 2000, hitting an intra-day high of 5, 132. 52 and closing at 5, 048. 62.

Economic and industrial espionage is most commonly associated with technology-heavy industries, including computer software and hardware, biotechnology, aerospace, telecommunications, transportation and engine technology, automobiles, machine tools, energy, materials and coatings and so on.

Like fellow technology-heavy firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, WSGR accepted equity in its clients as a form of payment in return for deferral of fees, and also passed on stakes in its investment fund to associates and staff members as a means of retaining employees.

The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on Friday, March 10, 2000, when the technology heavy NASDAQ Composite index, peaked at 5, 048. 62 ( intra-day peak 5, 132. 52 ), more than double its value just a year before.

* 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132. 52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

" Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite, which has been published since its inception.

* NASDAQ Composite

* March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5, 048.

Along with the NASDAQ Composite, the S & P 500 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index, the Dow is among the most closely watched U. S. benchmark indices tracking targeted stock market activity.

The NASDAQ Composite index spiked in the late 90s and then fell sharply as a result of the dot-com bubble.

The base price of the index was initially set at 250, but when it closed near 800 on December 31, 1993, the base was reset at 125 the following trading day, leaving the halved NASDAQ-100 price below that of the more commonly known NASDAQ Composite.

The NASDAQ-100 is frequently confused with the Nasdaq Composite Index ; the latter index ( often referred to simply as " The Nasdaq ") includes the stock of every company that is listed on NASDAQ ( more than 3, 000 altogether ) and is quoted more frequently than the NASDAQ-100 in popular media.

Influential global financial indices such as the Global Dow, and the NASDAQ Composite track the performance of selected large and powerful companies in order to evaluate and predict economic trends.

*. IXIC NASDAQ Composite Index

The NASDAQ Composite fell 7 %, or 115. 41 to 1, 535. 51.

The NASDAQ Composite also made a record gain on record volume, gaining 67 15 / 16 to 1, 603 1 / 16.

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

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

The NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ.

This particular index, which consists of Industrial, Technology, Retail, Telecommunication, Biotechnology, Health Care, Transportation, Media and Service companies ; and the NASDAQ Financial-100, which consists of banking companies, insurance firms, brokerage houses and mortgage companies.

The NASDAQ has over the years put in place a series of stringent standards that companies must meet before being included in the index.

While the composition of the NASDAQ-100 changes in the case of delisting ( such as transferring to another exchange, merging with another company, or declaring bankruptcy, and in a few cases, being delisted by NASDAQ for failing to meet listing requirements ), the index is only rebalanced once a year, in December, when NASDAQ reviews its components, compares them with those not in the index, re-ranks all eligible companies and makes the appropriate adjustments.

Additionally, the NASDAQ-100 is also the only index of the three that has a regularly scheduled re-ranking of its index each year, ensuring that the largest non-financial companies on NASDAQ are accurately included.

In 2006, NASDAQ created a " farm team " index, the NASDAQ Q-50, representing the next fifty stocks in line to enter the NASDAQ-100.

On December 22, 2008, NASDAQ added the following companies to the NASDAQ-100 index prior to the market open: Automatic Data Processing, First Solar, Life Technologies, Ross Stores Inc., Maxim Integrated Products, Illumina, Inc., Pharmaceutical Product Development, O ' Reilly Automotive, Urban Outfitters, J.

Hence, the index includes a majority of the common stocks and REITs traded primarily through New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, or the American Stock Exchange.

Trading index CFDs, such as the ones based on the major global indexes e. g. Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S & P 500, FTSE, DAX, and CAC, quickly became the most popular type of CFD that were traded.

Abnormal trading volumes caused by index fund managers re-balancing their portfolios has a history of significant market impact during the last few seconds before the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ closing prices are determined.

On March 10, 2000 the NASDAQ peaked at 5, 048. 62, more than double its value just a year before.

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.

NASDAQ quotes are available at three levels:

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

* Dow Jones Industrial Average at NASDAQ

One or more NASDAQ market makers will always provide a bid and ask price at which they will always purchase or sell ' their ' stock.

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.

On April 5, 2000, the corporation went public on the NASDAQ at $ 21 using the ticker symbol KREM.

Shortly after Macquarie withdrew its offer, the LSE received an unsolicited approach from NASDAQ valuing the company at £ 2. 4 billion.

NASDAQ later pulled its bid, and less than two weeks later on 11 April 2006, struck a deal with LSE's largest shareholder, Ameriprise Financial's Threadneedle Asset Management unit, to acquire all of that firm's stake, consisting of 35. 4 million shares, at £ 11. 75 per share.

On 20 November 2006, within a month or two of the expiration of this period, NASDAQ increased its stake to 28. 75 % and launched a hostile offer at the minimum permitted bid of £ 12. 43 per share, which was the highest NASDAQ had paid on the open market for its existing shares.

It is now owned by NASDAQ OMX and located at 1900 Market Street, in Center City Philadelphia.

The company became publicly listed on September 24, 1997, with vice-president Doug Massingill being promoted to Chief Executive Officer, at an initial price of $ 23 per share, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol JDEC.

By February 1987, ZZZZ Best was trading at $ 18 a share on NASDAQ, valuing the company at $ 280 million.

By January of 2012, the stock closed at $ 4. 71 HK on the Hong Kong Main Board, far outperforming its competitors sohu. com and sina. com's growth rates on the NASDAQ.

NASDAQ at the time had 70 Israeli companies listed on the exchange, with a combined global market cap of over US $ 60 billion.