Final First-Half Nasdaq 2000 Results - Total Dollar Volume Increased 125 Percent Over The First Half Of 1999 - Record Share Volume Day Recorded in April

The dollar value of shares traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® increased dramatically in the first half of 2000. Total dollar volume in the first six months of this year climbed to $10.8 trillion. This represented a 125 percent increase from $4.8 trillion in the same period in 1999, a clear indication that investors traded more shares with greater value.

Nasdaq® started the first half of 2000 with record volumes, continuing the trend of 1999, and it finished the second quarter and the first half with average daily share volumes of 1.59 billion and 1.70 billion shares, respectively. Nasdaq's heaviest ever trading day also occurred in the second quarter, when volume totaled 2.88 billion shares on April 4, 2000. There were 16 sessions during which more than two-billion shares were traded on Nasdaq during the first half of the year.