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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Also known as the Big Board or the Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange

The oldest securities exchange in the United States and the largest in the world by dollar value. Founded in 1792, it merged with Euronext in 2007 to form NYSE Euronext, which operates the exchange. Equities in 3,000 companies and 2,000 bonds are traded on the NYSE floor, with a market capitalization of $10.1 trillion in October 2008. The exchange operates as an auction, in which potential buyers and sellers gather around an appropriate floor specialist, who is employed by an NYSE member firm (not the NYSE itself) and who acts as an auctioneer to the buyers and sellers, who attempt to buy at the lowest possible price or sell at the highest. The right to trade on the floor belongs to any one of the owners of the 1366 seats on the exchange floor.

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the two securities exchanges operated by the NYSE Group, Inc. It's the oldest securities exchange in the United States and the largest traditional exchange in the world.

Trading on the floor of the exchange is by double auction system, handled by floor brokers representing buyers and sellers, and by specialists -- one for each listed security.

NYSEArca, the other NYSE Group exchange, is an all-electronic market, where trading is direct and anonymous.

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

What Does New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Mean?

Located in New York City, it is considered the largest equities-based exchange in the world, based on the total market capitalization of its listed securities. Formerly run as a private organization, the NYSE became a public entity in 2005 after the acquisition of the electronic trading exchange Archipelago. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange is now called NYSE Euronext after a merger with the European exchange in 2007. Also known as the Big Board, the NYSE relied for many years on floor trading by “specialists” only, using the open outcry system. Today, more than half of all NYSE trades are conducted electronically, although floor traders still are used to facilitate liquidity and execute high-volume institutional trading.

Investopedia explains New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

The origins of the exchange date back to 1792. Because of its long operating history, the NYSE is home to the majority of the world's largest and best-known companies. Foreign-based corporations can list their shares on the NYSE if they adhere to certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules known as listing standards. The NYSE is open for trading Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (ET), closing early on rare occasions. The market also shuts down during nine holidays throughout the year.

Related Terms:
• American Stock Exchange—AMEX
• Benchmark
• Listed
• Nasdaq
• Securities and Exchange Commission—SEC

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The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume, and the second largest by the way of number of companies listed for trading.

What Is the New York Stock Exchange? by Joel Teo / Finance and Investment community

held its board of directors' meeting at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Oct.

Ruger honored at New York Stock Exchange by Shooting Industry

Approximately 25 FEI women members and their colleagues gathered in late October for "Woman's View From the Floor of the NYSE," a program at the boardroom of the New York Stock Exchange.

FEI Women's Forum at NYSE. (Conferences) by Financial Executive

New York State United Teachers
New York State University Police Officers Union
New York State Urological Society
New York State Vegetable Growers Association, Inc.
New York State Veterinary Medical Society
New York State Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
New York State Volunteers
New York State Weatherization Directors' Association
New York State West Soccer Association
New York State West Youth Soccer Association
New York State Wildlife Management Association
New York State Wildlife Rehabilitation Council
New York State Wine and Grape Foundation
New York State Wireless Association
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
New York State Wrestling Coaches Association
New York State Young Democrats
New York State Young Republican Club
New York State-Ontario
New York Statewide Adoption Reform
New York Statewide Police Information Network
New York Statewide Traffic Accident Reconstruction Society, Inc.
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New York Structural Genomics Research Consortium
New York Student Financial Aid Administrators Association
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New York Summer Music Festival
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New York Superhero Syndicate
New York Support Network
New York Surf Film Festival
New York Surrogate's Court
New York Surrogate's Court
New York Susquehanna and Western Railway
New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group