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Invesco PowerShares (QQQQ) President and CEO Rings the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell
March 10, 2009 - Invesco PowerShares (QQQQ)
About this Marketsite Event:

Invesco PowerShares visits the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of QQQ (Nasdaq:QQQQ), one of the world's most actively traded securities benchmarked to the NASDAQ-100 Index. The index is the leading indicator of NASDAQ-listed securities comprised of the 100 largest non-financial stocks listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market.

In honor of the occasion, Bruce Bond, President and Chief Executive Officer of Invesco PowerShares, and John Jacobs, Chief Marketing Officer of NASDAQ OMX, will ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell.


About Invesco PowerShares:

Invesco PowerShares is a part of Invesco Ltd., a leading independent global investment management company, dedicated to helping people worldwide build their financial security. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive worldwide investment management capabilities, including AIM, Atlantic Trust, Invesco, Perpetual, PowerShares, Trimark, and WL Ross, Invesco provides a comprehensive array of enduring investment solutions for retail, institutional and high net worth clients around the world. Operating in 20 countries, the company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol IVZ.
Additional information is available at www.invesco.com.

About the NASDAQ-100 Index:

The NASDAQ-100 Index is the basis of over 900 products in 34 countries with approximately $490 billion dollars in notional value tied to the index. It is one of only two indexes that have traded more than 500 million futures with a national value greater than $25 trillion. To date, the NASDAQ-100 Index has traded over 600 million futures contracts.

NASDAQ OMX is a global leader in creating and licensing strategy indexes and is home to the most widely watched indexes in the world.

As a premier, full-service provider, NASDAQ OMX is dedicated to designing powerful indexes that are in sync with a continually changing market environment. Utilizing the expanded coverage of our global company, NASDAQ OMX has nearly 2,000 diverse equity, commodity and fixed-income indexes in the U.S., Europe, and throughout the world.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,900 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, including First North; and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs.
NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.

Press Inquiries Only:
Organizations interested in obtaining NASDAQ-listed company bell ringing ceremony photographs for press purposes, must first receive approval from the listed company before requesting photographs from NASDAQ. Please provide the company contact information from whom you received approval to Jolene Libretto at jolene.libretto@nasdaq.com. Kindly credit © 2009, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

Other Photography Inquiries:
For all other photography inquiries, please contact NASDAQ’s photographer, Zef Nikolla at zef.nikolla@nasdaqomx.com.

© 2009, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Reprinted with permission.