Nasdaq Concludes Record Volume Year As Demonstrated In Preliminary Year-End Results

The Nasdaq Stock Market® closed down for the year, ending five consecutive years of record gains. The year 2000 was, however, a year of record volume. There were 47 trading days in 2000 where volume exceeded two billion shares traded on Nasdaq®. Share volume reached 439.6 billion, up from 272.6 billion in 1999—a 61 percent increase for the year. The market value of the more than 4,700 companies listed on Nasdaq ended the year at $3.6 trillion, down 31 percent from year-end 1999.

The Nasdaq Stock Market lists has a larger dollar volume and trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. Nasdaq is a subsidiary of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), the largest securities-industry, self-regulatory organization in the United States. For more information about Nasdaq, visit the Nasdaq Web site at www.nasdaq.com or the Nasdaq NewsroomSM at www.nasdaqnews.com.