Ron Shear, CEO of Carlin Financial Group,
Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

Carlin Financial Group

Ron Shear, CEO of Carlin Financial Group and family preside over the closing bell.

Carlin Financial Group is a leading financial services company that provides a full suite of versatile products and services designed to meet the specific needs of financial institutions, hedge funds and sophisticated professional traders. Carlin's proprietary technology offers customized solutions and execution services, fully integrated with systems and operations support. The company's highly developed infrastructure supports equity, option, futures and fixed income trading platforms while providing optimal value to its customers. In addition, Carlin's complex proprietary algorithms allow for arbitrage/spread and automated trading. Carlin's systems are also highly scalable and flexible, enabling specialized modules to be added efficiently and economically to meet clients' needs. Carlin's full service direct access trading system, CarlinAccel, has become a leading trading system for a broad spectrum of clients including institutional clients, hedge funds, instividuals and professional traders.

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