The City Hoops to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, March 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

The City Hoops, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization serving the youth in New York, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. The City Hoops is a basketball program that focuses on the development of New York's youth both on and off the court.

In honor of the occasion, Arjan Perovic, Executive Director/Head Coach will ring the Opening Bell. 

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Monday, April 2, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET        

Contact:

Arjan Perovic

646-232-0177

coachperovic@thecitybasketball.org

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463

Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West

18 mhz Lower

DL 3811 Vertical

FEC 3/4

SR 13.235

DR 18.295411

MOD 4:2:0

DVBS QPSK

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About The City:

The City Hoops, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization serving the youth in New York, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. The City Hoops is a basketball program that focuses on the development of New York's youth both on and off the court. 

The primary mission of the The City is to promote the continued development of young players as it relates to basketball, leadership, sportsmanship and athletic competition. This will be achieved through participation in tournaments throughout the country and competing at the highest level. We push each player to reach their maximum potential today, so they can be leaders in our world tomorrow. We build character in each player through hard work, perseverance and commitment. We strive to provide the best competitive basketball experience for athletes that want to pursue a college education.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to traffic more than 1 million messages per second at sub-80 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily.  Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century.  To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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