Inner-City Scholarship Fund to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, May 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Inner-City Scholarship Fund, a not-for-profit organization, which seeks to provide tuition assistance to students from low-income families who wish to attend inner-city Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of New York, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. ICSF provides tuition assistance to more than 8,000 students (93% minority and 36% non-Catholic) in 92 inner-city Catholic schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. An astonishing 95% percent of graduates from ICSF supported schools pursue college at some of the finest universities in the nation.

In honor of the occasion, Susan George, Executive Director will ring the Opening Bell.  

Where:

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

When:

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET   

Contact:

Ginine Mohamad-Cilenti

(646) 794-3357

cilenti@icsf-nyc.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 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 Inner-City Scholarship Fund:

Founded in 1971, Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF), a not-for-profit organization, seeks to provide tuition assistance to students from low-income families who wish to attend inner-city Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of New York, making values-based Catholic education a viable choice for children of all faiths. Through the generosity of its volunteers, ICSF is also able to supplement education received with a variety of enrichment programs to benefit these children and the schools they attend. To learn more, visit icsf-nyc.org or call Daniel Mileno at 212-753-8583. 

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 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 $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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