New York, N.Y. — The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ^®; NASDAQ:NDAQ) will host its 15th Investor Program in association with Morgan Stanley in London on May 17-19, 2005. Presentations will be made by the senior management of 26 companies, including nine NASDAQ-100 Index^® companies. These presentations will be webcast live.

Technology companies participating are:

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP), Cree, Inc. (CREE); Foundry Networks, Inc. (FDRY), Intersil Corporation (ISIL), Lam Research (LRCX), Level 3 Communications, Inc. (LVLT), M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. (FLSH), Partner Communications Company, Ltd. (PTNR), PalmOne, Inc. (PLMO), Rambus Inc. (RMBS), SafeNet, Inc. (SFNT), Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (SLAB), Symantec Corporation (SYMC), Telvent GIT, S.A. (TLVT), Trimble Navigation Limited (TRMB), and WebEx Communications, Inc. (WEBX).

The following healthcare companies will participate:

Amgen Inc. (AMGN), Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc (ANPI), Affymetrix, Inc. (AFFX), Biomet, Inc. (BMET), Celgene Corporation (CELG), DENTSPLY International Inc. (XRAY), Kyphon Inc. (KYPH), Varian, Inc. (VARI), Pharmion Corporation (PHRM) and Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (SIAL).

Details of how to access the webcasts live on these dates or afterwards in archived form can be found at the NASDAQ Institutional Investor Center at http://investors.nasdaq.com/. The site provides over 20,000 portfolio managers, analysts and brokers worldwide with access to video content and information on NASDAQ-listed companies. Since its 2003 launch, it has generated approximately 1.2 million page views and over 4 million hits, with international visitors accounting for over 35% of those hits.

“Morgan Stanley is proud to continue to be associated with NASDAQ’s investor programs in London,” said Nadir Latif, Morgan Stanley’s Managing Director for European Equity Marketing. “We remain committed to delivering the best possible corporate access to our Institutional Equity clients and we are particularly delighted to have been able to extend our partnership with NASDAQ this year.”

“This bi-annual investor program has proven to be mutually beneficial to our participating issuers and the global investment and analyst communities,“ said NASDAQ Executive Vice President Bruce Aust. “We are pleased to provide institutional investors with another opportunity to interact with leaders of companies that represent a diverse range of industry groups. ”

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