National Investor Relations Institute, rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell.

National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) visits the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square for a special program, "Downloading NIRI," on Monday, June 15, 2009.

The program will feature the President and CEO of NIRI, Jeff Morgan, who will host a panel discussion highlighting the most compelling themes from this year's Annual NIRI conference.

In honor of the occasion, they presided over the Opening Bell.

Who:
* Jeff Morgan, Chief Executive Officer of National Investor Relations Institute
* Brad Wilks, Chicago CEO and Managing Director, Sard Verbinnen & Co.
* Nicole McIntosh, Director, Investor Relations, Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.
* Douglas Wilburne, CFA, Vice President, Investor Relations, Textron Inc.
* Derek Cole, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, ARCA biopharma, Inc.

About National Investor Relations Institute:

Founded in 1969, NIRI (www.NIRI.org) is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial community constituents. NIRI is the largest professional investor relations association in the world with more than 4,000 members representing 2,000 publicly held companies and $5.4 trillion in stock market capitalization.

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.

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