Russell Rebalance 2009On Friday, June 26, 2009, NASDAQ's Closing Cross processed a record 1.004 billion shares worth $9.36 billion, in 2.9 seconds in the Russell Index Reconstitution. A total of 7,987 symbols were crossed, the largest of which was in SIRI at 62.8 million shares. |
NASDAQ Performance Statistics
May Highlights
The NASDAQ Stock MarketThe NASDAQ Stock Market offers the largest liquidity pool in all U.S. equity securities, giving customers access to depth in both displayed and non-displayed orders.
U.S. Equities- Matched share of U.S. equity volume was 19.8% — more than any other U.S. exchange for the 26th consecutive month.
- Avergage daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 2.2 billion shares, a 13% increase over May 2008.
- Average daily matched share volume in NASDAQ-listed securities was 774 million shares
- Matched market share in NASDAQ-listed securities was 32%
- Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 955 million shares, a 14% increase over May 2008.
- NASDAQ’s matched market share in NYSE-listed securities was 14.8%.
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U.S. Equities- NASDAQ OMX BX’s (BX) matched share of U.S. equity volume was .9%. In April, matched share on BX was .8%.
- Total matched volume in U.S. equities was 2.1 million shares, an increase of 21% over the previous month.
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NASDAQ Dominates ETF Trading
The NASDAQ Stock Market is the world's largest exchange for ETFs offering world-class technology, a deep pool of liquidity, a passion for efficient market structure and competitive pricing. In May 2009:
- Matched market share in U.S. ETFs was 22.4% — more than any other U.S. exchange.
- Average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs was 530 million shares — increasing 65% over the same period last year.
NASDAQ OMX Gives You Options
NASDAQ OMX provides firms with two complementary options market models. The NASDAQ Options Market offers a price/time priority market structure and a unique penny pricing model that provides immediate and automatic price improvement to orders. NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) operates a customer priority model on a combination of cutting-edge electronic and floor-based options trading technology. Taking both exchanges together, NASDAQ OMX runs the third-largest U.S. options trading venue. Both models offer options customers robust product portfolios, varied price offerings, cost efficiencies.
- NASDAQ OMX exchanges’ matched market share of U.S. equity options was 21.3% last month.
- The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S. equity options totaled 3.2 million contracts in May 2009, an increase of .46% from the same period one year ago.
- In May, matched share on The NASDAQ Option Market was 3.46%. In April, matched share was 3.04%.
- PHLX matched share was above 17% for the fourth consecutive month.
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Find Dark Liquidity on NASDAQ
During May, 16.3% of NASDAQ’s matched volume resulted from non-displayed orders, adding 7.2 billion shares of dark liquidity to the NASDAQ book. Learn more about non-displayed volume on NASDAQ on our dark liquidity page.
*Data represent share volume of NASDAQ-listed, NYSE-listed or U.S. equity securities (including ETFs) that are executed on the NASDAQ book as a percentage of consolidated market volume. Data are single counted.
