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May 17 2013 | 1:48 AM | Posted by:
Posted by : Michelle Greene

Learn more about the finalists of the FinCanDev competition, a nationwide, $100,000 challenge to develop new mobile apps to help working Americans make smart financial choices.

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Governance & Proxy
Apr 15 2013 | 11:59 AM | Posted by:
Posted by : Judith (Judy) C. McLevey

The SEC offered guidance recently as to how public companies may be able to use social media sites to communicate material company announcements like earnings, merger activity, executive changes, etc.

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NYSE Magazine
May 17 2012 | 10:33 AM
NYSE Mag Spring 2012 Issue: Job Creation

The Spring edition of NYSE magazine is now live, coinciding with the launch of NYSE Euronext’s new brand identity this week. At nysemagazine.com and on your iPad app (download it for free if you haven’t yet done so), you will find profiles of:

  • LinkedIn, which this month, at the young age of nine, is marking its first anniversary of being a public company;
  • GDF Suez, which is listed on NYSE Euronext in Paris and is more than 150 years old; and
  • Union Pacific, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary by ringing The Closing Bell on July 2. Union Pacific is one of the top components of the new Century Index and one...
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Posted by: Danielle Cimato
Director, Global Marketing & Branding
Governance & Proxy
May 17 2012 | 10:22 AM
Proxy Fee Committee makes recommendations to the NYSE

New York City - Stock Exchange (NYSE) Deutsch:...

New York City - Stock Exchange (NYSE) Deutsch: New York City - Börse (NYSE) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Each year, companies distribute millions of...

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Posted by: Judith (Judy) C. McLevey
VP, Corporate Actions & Market Watch
NYSE MAC Desk
May 17 2012 | 10:13 AM
Market Flash: Market Down

Breakfast Bites: Ongoing concerns over the European financial crisis and less than stellar economic data is overshadowing some positive earnings from the likes of Wal-Mart



  • It is The New York Stock Exchange's 220 year anniversary!!

  • Jobless claims were unchanged at 370,000 in the week ending May12th, a sign the labor market is making little to slow progress.

  • The Philadelphia Fed general economic index decreased to -5.8 in May from 8.5. Economists had predicted it would rise to 10.

  • The Index of U.S. Leading Indicators unexpectedly fell in April indicating the pace of economic expansion may cool.

  • Wal-Mart's Q1 EPS of $1.09 beat by $0.05. Revenue grew 8.6% to $112.3B and beat by $1.8B. Expects Q2 EPS of $1.13-$1.18 vs. consensus $1.16

  • Consumer confidence dropped last week to the lowest level since the end of January (-43.6) as slower job growth contributed to overall consumer...
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Posted by: Charles Brown
Managing Director, The Capital Markets Desk
NYSE History
May 17 2012 | 9:42 AM
220 Years Young

Today the NYSE celebrates its 220th birthday.



On May 17, 1792 a group of 24 stockbrokers – pioneers in a business that was still in its infancy – signed an agreement to trade only with each other and to charge their customers a standard commission.  The brokers signed their historic agreement underneath a Buttonwood tree that stood on Wall Street, or so the story goes.  The document has since been called the “Buttonwood Agreement” and marks the origins of the New York Stock Exchange.


How does a company stay successful for 220 years?  Certainly by being best at what it does.  Also by being able to see down the road and changing to meet new opportunities and challenges.  All while remaining steadfast to its principles and true to itself.


There...

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Posted by: Steven Wheeler
Director, Archives, Corporate Giving and Education
NYX 360
May 17 2012 | 8:55 AM
NYX 360: 17 May, 2012
New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, New Yo...

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Posted by: Ray Pellecchia