NASDAQ to Host Press Briefing On New Exchange Traded Funds Based On NASDAQ Clean Energy and NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Indexes

ADVISORY, Feb. 9, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) --

What: Press briefing to announce the launch of the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index Fund(sm) and the First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index(sm) Fund Who: Dan Waldron, Vice President, New Product Development, First Trust Portfolios Ron Pernick, Co-founder and Principal, Clean Edge John Jacobs, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ Steven Bloom, Senior Vice President, NASDAQ When: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10 a.m. Breakfast will be served Where: NASDAQ MarketSite 43rd and Broadway (enter on Broadway) New York, New York Reservations: Please contact Ann Sullivan 212.401.8949 Ann.Sullivan@Nasdaq.com

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