- NASDAQ
- National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System. An electronic quotation system that provides price quotations to market participants about the more actively traded common stock issues in the OTC market. About 4,000 common stock issues are included in the NASDAQ system. The New York Times Financial Glossary————National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System; a screen based system for certain US shares; a Recognised Overseas Investment Exchange. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary————National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system ( NASDAQ)NASDAQ is the second largest equity market in the USA and lists thousands of US and foreign companies. In recent years it has attracted a lot of high technology companies. The Stock Exchange Market offers electronic trading using computers and a vast telecommunications network. Financial Services Glossary————National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ( NASDAQ) - the first electronic stock market in the world. London Stock Exchange Glossary
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National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations; a system giving the prices of shares in smaller and newer companies that are traded Over The Counter (= directly between dealers on a national computer network rather than on a stockmarket) in the US. Nasdaq is officially known as the Nasdaq Stock Exchange* * *
The National Association of Securities Dealers' Automated Quotations System, formerly owned and operated by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). NASDAQ is an electronic stock market based in New York listing many leading high-tech companies. The exchange's index - the NASDAQ Composite - has become an alternative benchmark to the DJIA.■ www.Nasdaq.com ■► See also High Tech Stock, DJIA.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
