Trading activity on The Nasdaq Stock Market® remained brisk in the third quarter, with share volume averaging 1.58 billion per day, a 56.90 percent increase over the same period last year. Nasdaq’s fifth heaviest trading session ever occurred in the third quarter, when volume soared to 2.16 billion shares on September 22.
The dollar value of shares traded on Nasdaq in the third quarter dramatically increased over the same period in 1999. Dollar volume in the third quarter totaled $ 4.73 trillion compared with $ 2.41 trillion last year, a gain of 96.40 percent.
Total market value at the end of the third quarter was $5.28 trillion, up 57.45 percent over the same period one year ago.