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NASDAQ OMX Announces March 2009 Market Performance Statistics For U.S. Exchanges - The NASDAQ Stock Market's Matched Market Share Of U.S. Equity Volume Surpassed All Other U.S. Exchanges For The Twenty-Fourth Straight Month

Date 22/04/2009

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

  • The NASDAQ Stock Market's (NASDAQ(r)) matched share of U.S. equity volume in March 2009 was 22.5%, more than any other U.S. exchange for the twenty-fourth consecutive month.
    • The average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities last month was 2.8 billion shares, a 10% increase over March 2008.
    • The average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities was 12.0 million, an increase of 7% over March 2008.
    • During March, 15.5% of NASDAQ's matched volume resulted from non-displayed orders, adding 9.5 billion shares of dark liquidity to the NASDAQ book.
  • Matched market share in NYSE-listed securities during March 2009 was 16.5%.
    • The average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 1.2 billion shares, a 2% increase over February 2009 and a 19% increase over March 2008.
  • Matched market share in NASDAQ-listed securities during March 2009 was 36.4%.
    • NASDAQ's average daily matched share volume in NASDAQ-listed securities during March was 852 million shares.
  • NASDAQ OMX BX's (BX) matched share of U.S. equity volume in March was .33%. In February, matched share on NASDAQ OMX BX -- a new trading platform that provides a second quote for U.S. cash equities -- was .11%.
    • BX's total matched volume in U.S. equities in March was 885 million shares, an increase of 244% over the previous month.
  • Matched market share in U.S. ETFs during March 2009 was 28.4%, more than any other U.S. exchange.
    • Average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in March was 755 million shares, increasing 51% over the same period one year ago.
  • NASDAQ OMX exchanges' matched market share of U.S. equity options was 20.4% last month, compared with 14.9% in March 2008.
    • The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S. equity options totaled 3.0 million contracts in March 2009.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Monthly Volume and Market Share Report is available at http://media.primezone.com/cache/6948/file/6809.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://omxnordicexchange.com/newsandstatistics/statisticsanalysis/StatisticsNE/StatisticsNEArticle?releaseId=418190&lang.