NYSE Euronext (NYX)

NYSE Euronext operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group. The company's exchanges in Europe and the U.S, trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products.

NYSE Euronext's equities markets include: the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s biggest cash equities market; NYSE Arca, a fully electronic exchange for growth-oriented enterprises; NYSE Euronext, the Eurozone’s biggest cash equities market; and NYSE Alternext, a pan-European market designed specifically for emerging companies. It also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies.

NYSE-listed companies swept more than half of IR Magazine’s 2006 U.S. awards held in New York City, and the magazine’s 2006 Canada awards held in Toronto. In New York, 16 of the 28 awards went to companies listed on the Big Board. In Toronto, NYSE-listed companies received 14 out of 27 awards.

NYSE Euronext’s U.S. exchange group has received Structured Products Magazine’s “Exchange of the Year Award”, presented at the Structured Products Americas Conference in Coral Gables, Fla. The award is presented annually to the most innovative and dedicated U.S. exchange serving structured-product issuers and investors. It also earned two 1st place awards at the 5th annual Global ETF Awards held in New York City for “Most Proactive ETF Exchange – The Americas” and “The Exchange that has the Largest Number of Primary Listings”.

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