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NASDAQ OMX Announces August 2009 Market Performance Statistics For U.S. Exchanges

Date 29/09/2009

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. exchanges for the month of August 2009.


  * The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. matched share of total U.S. equity volume
    in August 2009 was 21.2%.
    -- The NASDAQ Stock Market's (NASDAQ(R)) matched share of U.S. equity
       volume was 18.6%, more than any other U.S. exchange.
    -- NASDAQ OMX BX matched share of U.S. volume was 2.6%.


 The NASDAQ Stock Market:

  * The average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities last month
    was 1.8 billion shares.
    -- The average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities was 7.2
       million.

  * Matched market share in NYSE-listed securities during August 2009 was
    13.5%.
    -- The average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 789
       million shares, a 4.1% increase from last month.

  * Matched market share in NASDAQ-listed securities during August 2009
    was 30%.
    -- NASDAQ's average daily matched share volume in NASDAQ-listed
       securities during August was 644 million shares.

 NASDAQ OMX BX:

  * NASDAQ OMX BX (BX) has experienced unprecedented growth in the
    first seven months of operation. BX matched share of U.S. equity
    volume in August was 2.6%. In July, matched share on BX was 2.1%.
    -- BX's average daily matched volume in U.S. equities in August
       was 250 million shares, an increase of 36.8% over the previous
       month.


 U.S. ETFs:

  * Matched market share in U.S. ETFs during August 2009 was 24.5%, more
    than any other U.S. exchange.
    -- Average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in August was 350
       million shares.

 U.S. Equity Options:

  * NASDAQ OMX exchanges' matched market share of U.S. equity options
    was 20% last month, a 5.8% increase over last year.
    -- The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S.
       equity options totaled 2.5 million contracts in August 2009, a
       43.5% increase over last year.
    -- In August, matched share on The NASDAQ Options Market (NOM) was
       3.5%.
    -- NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) matched share was 16.6%.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Monthly Volume and Market Share Report is available at

http://media.globenewswire.com/cache/6948/file/7388.pdf

To download more detailed information on NASDAQ OMX and overall U.S. market activity, including FINRA/NASDAQ TRF, NASDAQ Reported, NASDAQ Routed, NASDAQ Handled and Consolidated figures, visit http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/marketstatistics/marketshare/useq.xls.

For information about these and other NASDAQ performance statistics, visit www.nasdaqtrader.com/marketshare.

For this month's detailed statistics on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic regions, including national figures, visit http://nordic.nasdaqomxtrader.com/newsstatistics/.