When:
Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Where:
NASDAQ MarketSite
4 Times Square
43rd St. & Broadway - enter on 43rd Street

Time/What:
11:00 a.m. - Market Opening Ceremony
Market Opening Ceremony with the second grade class from the H. Byron Masterson Elementary School of Kennett, Missouri, who wrote and illustrated the Scholastic Book Fairs' Kids Are Authors Competition award-winning book "September 12th: We Knew Everything Would Be All Right," published by Scholastic. The children will open the market with their classroom teacher, the school's principal, President of Scholastic Books Barbara Marcus and NASDAQ Chairman and CEO Wick Simmons.

4:00 p.m. - NASDAQ Disaster Relief Fund
NASDAQ will distribute checks to the recipients of the NASDAQ Disaster Relief Fund at a special market transition ceremony.

Contacts:
NASDAQ MarketSite:
Mike DeMeo; (212) 768-2562; michael.demeo@NASDAQ.com
Erika Farber; (646) 441-5209; Erika.Farber@NASDAQ.com

Feed Information:
Market Open Ceremony: available from 10:35 - 11:05 a.m. on Telestar 6 Cband, Transponder 15, downlink frequency: 4000 Vertical, audio 6.2/6.8.

Market Transition Ceremony: available from 3:45 - 4:15 p.m. on Telestar 5 Cband, Transponder 8, downlink frequency: 3860 Horizontal, audio 6.2/6.8.

The feeds will also be available on Waterfront fiber 1623.

If you have any questions please contact Heather Patterson in the NASDAQ Traffic Department at (646) 441-5220.

Photographs:
To obtain photographs from this Market Open, visit the Event & MarketSite section on www.NASDAQ.com.