NYSE STOCK EXCHANGE

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Stock exchange

• Trading approximately 1.46 billion shares each day, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the leading stock exchange in the world.

• The exchange trades stocks for some 2,800 companies, ranging from blue chips to new high-growth companies.

Stock exchange

• Each listed company has to meet strict requirements, as the NYSE strives to maintain its reputation of trading strong, high-quality securities.

Stock exchange

• Operating as a continuous auction floor trading stock exchange, the major players on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange are specialists and brokers.

• Brokers are employed by investment firms and trade either on behalf of their firm's clients or the firm itself.

Stock exchange

• The broker moves around the floor, bringing 'buy and sell' orders to the specialists.

• Each specialist stands in one location on the floor and deals in one or several specific stocks, depending on their trading volume.

Stock exchange

• The specialist's job is to accept 'buy and sell' orders from brokers and manage the actual auction.

• It is also the specialist's job to ensure that there is a market for their specified stocks at all times, meaning they will invest their own firm's capital at times to keep the market active and maintain the shares' liquidity.

Stock exchange

• Specialists and brokers interact to create an effective system that provides investors with competitive prices based on supply and demand.

INDICES

Name Value Change $ (%)

DJ Industrials

16,331.05

+108.88 (0.67%)

S&P 500 1,872.01 +11.24 (0.60%)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

NASDAQ Comp

4,319.29 +11.68 (0.27%)

NYSE Composite

10,400.69

+41.19 (0.40%)

NYSE U.S. 100

7,885.44 +59.74 (0.76%)

Dow Jones Industrial Average

• Beginning on September 20 2013, after the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of the following 30 major American companies:

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Company Symbol:Sector NYSE NASDAQ

3M Industrials MMMAlcoa Materials AA

Altria Group Consumer Staples MO

American Express

Financials AXP

Dow Jones Industrial Average

American International Group

Financials AIG

AT&T Telecommunication Services T

Boeing Industrials BACaterpillar Industrials CATCitigroup Financials C

Coca-Cola Consumer Staples KO

DuPont Materials DD

Dow Jones Industrial AverageExxon Mobil Energy XOM

General Electric Industrials GE

General Motors Consumer Discretionary GM

Hewlett-Packard Information Technology HPQ

Home Depot Consumer Discretionary HD

Honeywell Industrials HON

IBM Information Technology IBM

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Intel Information Technology INTC

Johnson & Johnson

Health Care JNJ

JPMorgan Chase Financials JPM

McDonald's Consumer Discretionary MCD

Merck Health Care MRK

Microsoft Information Technology MSFT

Dow Jones Industrial AveragePfizer Health Care PFE

Procter & Gamble

Consumer Staples PG

United Technologies

Industrials UTX

Verizon Communications

Telecommunications Services VZ

Wal-Mart Consumer Staples WMT

Walt Disney Consumer Discretionary DIS