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NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX ) announced at its annual meeting today that shareholders who cast votes elected the full slate of 18 directors to its Board, approved the NYSE Euronext omnibus incentive plan, and ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2008.
Based on preliminary results presented by Inspector of Elections, MacKenzie Partners, Inc., NYSE Euronext shareholders elected to the Board of Directors: Jan-Michiel Hessels (Chairman of the Board), Marshall N. Carter (Deputy Chairman), Duncan L. Niederauer (Chief Executive Officer), Jean-François Théodore (Deputy Chief Executive Officer), Ellyn Brown, Sir George Cox, William Ford, Sylvain Hefes, Dominique Hoenn, Shirley Ann Jackson, James McDonald, Duncan McFarland, James McNulty, Baron Jean Peterbroeck, Alice Rivlin, Ricardo Salgado, Rijnhard van Tets, and Sir Brian Williamson. In connection with a decrease in the size of the Board from 22 to 18 directors, four directors chose not to stand for re-election: André Dirckx, Patrick Houël, Robert B. Shapiro and Karl M. von der Heyden.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) operates the world’s leading and most liquid exchange group, and seeks to provide the highest levels of quality, customer choice and innovation. Its family of exchanges, located in six countries, includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest cash equities market; Euronext, the Eurozone's largest cash equities market; Liffe, Europe's leading derivatives exchange by value of trading; and NYSE Arca Options, one of the fastest growing U.S. options trading platforms. NYSE Euronext offers a diverse array of financial products and services for issuers, investors and financial institutions in cash equities, options and derivatives, ETFs, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. NYSE Euronext's nearly 4,000 listed companies represent a combined $27.3 / €17.3 trillion in total global market capitalization (as of March 31, 2008 ), more than four times that of any other exchange group. NYSE Euronext's equity exchanges transact an average daily trading value of approximately $169.6 / €113.2 billion (as of March 31, 2008 ), which represents more than one-third of the worlds cash equities trading. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index. For more information, please visit www.nyx.com.
