John Jacobs, Executive Vice President of The NASDAQ Stock Market & Head of The NASDAQ PORTAL Market, presides over the opening bell.

Wednesday August 15, 2007
from Nasdaq MarketSite
in New York's Times Square

The NASDAQ PORTAL Market

John Jacobs, Executive Vice President of The NASDAQ Stock Market & Head of The NASDAQ PORTAL Market, will preside over the opening bell to celebrate the launch of NASDAQ's PORTAL Market Trading System. The new PORTAL system will be available to all qualified users on Wednesday, August 15, 2007. It is intended to improve the efficiency and transparency of the private placement market -- thereby encouraging capital formation.

The PORTAL Market has this year alone designated more than 1,700 144A equity and debt securities as PORTAL securities, compared to nearly 2,700 in all of 2006. Among the companies that have raised capital using PORTAL this year and last are Archer Daniels Midland Company, Adidas (Germany), Bank of China, Rosneft (Russia), Samsung (Korea), Telstra (Australia), and UTI Bank (India).

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