Miss New York, Kaitlin Monte to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, July 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Miss New York will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square.  

In honor of the occasion, Kaitlin Monte, Miss New York 2011 will ring the Closing Bell.

Where:

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

When:

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET     

Contact:

Judy Bolton 

516-457-4774 

judy@missny.org

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp 

(212) 401-8916 

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

The entire Closing Bell is available from 3:50 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. on AMC-3/C-3 (dl 3760H). The feed can also be found on Ascent fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact Jen Knapp (212) 401-8916.

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Webcast:

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

http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

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 Miss New York, Kaitlin Monte:

Kaitlin Monte is 22-year-old Rochester native and 2008 graduate of the University of Tampa with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts with a concentration in public relations and consumer psychology. She earned her first six college credits in the eighth grade in engineering. By her sophomore year she had earned a full semester's worth of engineering credits from the Rochester Institute of Technology and was accepted to Clarkson University at age 16 to begin her freshman year. After her first year, Kaitlin transferred to the University of Tampa.

Kaitlin is a professional stage and screen actress whose work has taken her around the country. She began professionally at age 15, touring with an entertainment band across the Northeast. While attending college full time, she worked three days a week at Busch Gardens Tampa. She made her broadcast debut hosting New Years Eve in Times Square in 2010 with the Times Square Alliance.

Kaitlin has worked for three years with the USO Liberty Bells, the official show troupe for the USO. The Liberty Bells are a professional group of Broadway and Off-Broadway performers who travel the world to perform and raise support for our men and women in uniform. All proceeds from the Liberty Bells' performances go towards USO programming for our military at home and overseas.

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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