ELEMENTS<SUP>SM</SUP> Linked To The S&P Commodity Trends Indicator Total Return Index ETN Lists On NYSE Arca

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced that the ELEMENTS^SM S&P Commodity Trends Indicator Total Return Index ETN issued by HSBC USA Inc. listed and began trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol LSC.  ETFs and ETNs listed on NYSE Arca--an industry leader in ETF and ETN listings and trading- represent 56% of ETF and ETN assets under management in the U.S., nearly $609 billion, the most of any exchange.

The ELEMENTS^SM Linked to the S&P Commodity Trends Indicator Total Return Index ETN tracks the prices of a diversified portfolio of sixteen traditional, physical commodity futures contracts.  The Index Components are grouped into six sectors and each sector is represented on either a “long” or “short” basis, depending on recent price trends of that sector.

ELEMENTS ETNs are designed to track the total return of specific market indexes and seek to provide convenient access to strategies and markets that have not been readily available to individual investors. ELEMENTS ETNs are brought to the market through industry-wide relationships among index providers, investment grade issuers, distributors and securities exchanges. HSBC USA Inc. will issue the ELEMENTS, and Nuveen and Merrill will co-distribute the ETNs.

Including today’s listings, NYSE Arca has 263 primary ETF and 56 ETNs listings and trade all other eligible ETFs on a UTP basis.  In 2007, NYSE Arca added 122 new ETFs and ETNs to its roster of primary listings, including a record 101 IPOs.  For the full-year 2007, NYSE Arca was the primary listing exchange of choice with a total of 261 ETFs and ETNs listed and $340 billion assets under management.