Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, July 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance, an organization which aims to to provide networking, mentoring and scholarship support to current Georgetown students and alumni, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

In honor of the occasion, Bill Frank, Senior Partner at Skadden Arps and Co-Chairman of the Georgetown Wall Street Alliance will ring the Opening Bell.

Where:

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

When:

Thursday, July 5, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET   

Contact:

Elizabeth R. Jordan

(302) 377-9422

erj3@georgetown.edu

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916 

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West

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DL 3811 Vertical

FEC 3/4

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ OpeningBell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

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 Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance:

The Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance brings together more than 8,000 Georgetown alumni, parents and friends in the financial community. Georgetown University alumni have developed into a significant force in the Wall Street financial community. Leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and numerous other major firms are held by Georgetown graduates. In 1994, a number of these leaders joined then-President Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., in creating the Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance.

The group works to raise Georgetown's profile and that of its alumni, parents and friends in finance; to create and participate in networking opportunities for financial professionals; to provide networking, mentoring and scholarship support to current and future Georgetown students and to build relationships between members' firms and the university for the mutually beneficial exchange of resources.

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 U.S. 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 process 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 $6.2 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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