EASDAQ Kicks Off New Dual Trading Facility with Ten Leading US Tech Stocks

EASDAQ - the pan-European stock market for international growth and technology companies - today announced the ten stocks that will begin trading on EASDAQ at the launch of its new dual-trading facility on Wednesday 19 January 2000: Microsoft; MCI Worldcom; Cisco Systems; Dell Computer; Intel; Yahoo!; Oracle; Amgen; Sun Microsystems; Amazon.com. The new facility will provide investors with one-stop access to a range of exciting growth and technology stocks from US, European and Israeli markets, during normal European trading hours. "The ten stocks listed above are just the beginning," commented EASDAQ CEO Steffen Schubert. "EASDAQ will open its pan-European platform to an expanding list of international securities, allowing investors to use our unique infrastructure to trade stocks from markets across Europe, the US and Israel." The trading of these stocks will take place alongside traditional EASDAQ IPOs and secondary offerings, within a fully regulated market environment. The new facility is a further step in EASDAQ's strategy to become the leading market for trading international securities in the European time zone. EASDAQ is the pan-European stock market for international growth and technology companies. With a single rule book, a single membership and seamless pan-European trading and settlement operations, EASDAQ's unified structure offers all market participants a solid platform for growth - irrespective of national boundaries. At 12 January 2000, EASDAQ had 56 listed companies with a total market capitalisation of EUR 41 billion. The EASDAQ All-Share Index (EASI) rose 87% during 1999, outperforming the Nasdaq Composite and the Neuer Markt indices, among others.