Governor of the Central Bank in Latvia to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, Sept. 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

The Governor of the Central Bank in Latvia will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell.

Where:

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

When:

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET   

Contact:

Bank of Latvia

Press secretary, Martins Gravitis, ph +371 670 22 349, cell +371 26510385

Martins.Gravitis@bank.lv

NASDAQ OMX management representative from Latvia

Indars Ascuks, cell: +371 29119096, indars.ascuks@nasdaqomx.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Webcast:

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About the Governor of the Central Bank in Latvia, Mr Ilmars Rimsevics:

Mr. Ilmars Rimsevics has been Governor of the Bank of Latvia since December 2001, after holding key central bank posts, including two consecutive terms as deputy governor, for almost a decade. He is a Riga Technical University graduate and holds an MBA degree from Clarkson University, USA.

He was part of the team managing Latvia's monetary policy when the national currency, the lats, was reintroduced in 1993 and is serving his second six-year governorship since November 2007 as this Baltic country gears up for the eventual adoption of the euro.

About the Bank of Latvia

The country's central bank is an independent institution that sets and executes monetary policy, manages the foreign currency and gold reserves, emits cash currency and ensures the functioning of the interbank settlement systems. The Bank of Latvia is a participant in the European System of Central Banks. Supervision of the Bank of Latvia is vested with the Parliament.

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 more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX 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 exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). 

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