Dean Peter Henry of NYU Stern School of Business to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, April 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

NYU Stern School of Business will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to kick off "Pre-View weekend" for students admitted to the Stern Full-time MBA Class of 2014. The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation, which marks April as Financial Literacy Month, has proudly funded NYU Stern School of Business research initiatives since 2005.

In honor of the occasion, NYU Stern's current MBA students and faculty will join Dean Peter Henry to ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell.

Who:

• Peter Henry, Dean, NYU Stern
• Current NYU Stern MBA students
• Joel Hasbrouck, Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business and Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
• Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
• Joe Foudy, Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics and Management, NYU Stern

Where:

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

When:

Friday, April 13, 2012 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET       

Contact:

Rika Nazem

(212) 998-0678

rnazem@stern.nyu.edu

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at:

http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

Photos:

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

About NYU Stern School of Business:

New York University Stern School of Business, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, is one of the nation's premier management education schools and research centers. NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, all of them informed and enriched by the dynamism, energy and deep resources of the world's business capital. Additional information about NYU Stern School of Business is available at www.stern.nyu.edu.

About The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation:

The mission of The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation is to promote learning about capital formation, financial markets and entrepreneurship through innovative educational programs. It was established in New York City in 1994 and is supported entirely by contributions from The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

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-40 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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