Invesco PowerShares to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell in Celebration of the PowerShares Tennis Series Sponsorship

ADVISORY, April 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square to celebrate its sponsorship of the PowerShares Series, a collection of tennis tournaments featuring the greatest names in tennis over the age of 30, formerly known as the Champions Series. The PowerShares Series will feature Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Jim Courier and other Grand Slam winners competing in twelve one-night tournaments across the United States this fall. Each PowerShares Series tournament will showcase four of the legendary players playing in two, 1-set semifinals followed by a 1-set championship match.

In honor of the occasion, Jim Courier, tennis legend, and current Davis Cup Captain, will ring the Opening Bell. 

Where:

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

When:

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET      

PowerShares Media Contact:

Kristin Sadlon

Cohn & Wolfe

212.798.9864

kristin.sadlon@cohnwolfe.com

Bill Conboy

303-415-2290

bill@bccapitalpartners.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell 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 Invesco PowerShares:

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC is Leading the Intelligent ETF Revolution® through its family of more than 140 domestic and international exchange-traded funds, providing advisors and investors access to an innovative array of focused investment opportunities. With franchise assets over $57.6 billion as of December 31, 2011, PowerShares ETFs trade on both U.S. stock exchanges. For more information, please visit us at invescopowershares.com or follow us on Twitter @PowerShares.

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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