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The NYSE Euronext (NYX), the world's leading and most diverse exchange group, completed its acquisition of the American Stock Exchange® (Amex®), becoming the third-largest U.S. options marketplace and enhancing the company's leadership in ETFs, cash equities, closed-end funds and structured products.

As a result, NYSE Euronext has begun to integrate amex.com content and data into the nyse.com website. Effective the close of business, Friday, January 16, 2009, amex.com will be phased out.

Since the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) listed options business in 1973, it has been the leader in options volume every single year. In 2007, CBOE options contract volume was an all-time record of 944,471,924 contracts (up 40% over the previous year), average daily volume in CBOE options on indexes and ETFs was 1,766,921 contracts (a 56% increase over 2006). CBOE now offers more than 90 different index options contracts (including options on index ETFs and on cash-settled indexes). Since its introduction of S&P Index Options in 1983, CBOE's total volume in S&P options is more than 1.7 billion. In 2007, average daily volume for CBOE's S&P 500® options was a record 629,819 contacts (or about $90 billion in notional value per day).

• www.cboe.com

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT® ), established in 1848, is a leading futures and futures-options exchange. More than 3,600 CBOT member/stockholders trade 50 different futures and options products at the CBOT by open auction and electronically. Volume at the Exchange in 2006 surpassed 805 million contracts, the highest yearly total recorded in its history.

• www.cbot.com

Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. We provide the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange, covering all major asset classes. Our collective vision is one of ongoing global growth, innovative product development, continually enhanced technology and the highest level of service available on any exchange. Specifically, we offer futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. More than three quarters of our trading volume comes from trades made electronically on our CME Globex electronic trading platform.

• www.cme.com

CHX is an integral part of the National Market System offering competition to all U.S. equity markets. CHX offers the ability to transact business in virtually all NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ issues. With a robust Matching System and connectivity to multiple order sending firms and market-makers, the CHX system offers functionality beyond the simple matching of orders and is an ideal venue for hedge funds, options market markers, quantitative, professional and active individual traders that require immediate and automated execution, while continuing to serve the needs of traditional broker-dealer clients and the individual investors they represent.

• www.chx.com

The number of securities exchanges in the World is growing rapidly! WMM's goal is to create a Global Online Investment Community providing companies and investors the ability to engage and interact within one single multi-lingual platform.

While each of our individual Community sites are evolving! Please find our directory of the United State's stock markets, securities exchanges, associations, federations and regulatory bodies herein.

If you know of any security exchange or website that we have not included or find any errors in our listings, please E-MAIL US the exchange name and URL to be added or corrected. Thank you!

Direct Edge

Direct Edge offers the next generation of displayed markets. With US cash equities volume routinely exceeding 1 billion shares per day, Direct Edge uses multiple ECN and exchange platforms and unique order types to match complementary forms of liquidity based on sensitivity to transaction cost, fill rate, fill speed, and contra-side sophistication, while maintaining high execution quality and low latencies. Their innovative business model creates opportunities for the trading community unlike any other market center.

In December of 2008 Direct Edge and the International Securities Exchange ("ISE") completed the previously announced transaction whereby the ISE Stock Exchange became a wholly owned subsidiary of Direct Edge.

• www.theice.com

Since its inception in 1856, the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) is a place where buyers and sellers gather to trade commodities, commonly known as a commodity exchange. Futures and options contracts are traded on hard red winter wheat and the Value Line® Index, a equally-weighted index of approximately 1,650 stocks. Traders of futures and options contracts can lock in a purchase price or sale price for a commodity in advance, reducing the business risks faced as a result of volatile prices. This process is known as "hedging".

• www.kcbt.com

Since its inception in 1881, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) has been the principal market for hard red spring wheat, first as a cash market, then futures and options. Millers, exporters, elevators, farmers and speculators look to the MGEX when they trade wheat. Known for its stable and reliable trading environment, the MGEX has a reputation as a good place to do business. It offers the liquidity, the product line and the oversight to ensure fair and accurate trading for all its participants.

• www.mgex.com

NASDAQ is the largest US electronic stock market. With approximately 3,200 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other US market. It is home to companies that are leaders across all areas of business, including technology, retail, communications, financial services, transportation, media and biotechnology. NASDAQ is the primary market for trading NASDAQ-listed stocks.

• www.nasdaq.com
• www.nasdaqfacts.com
• www.nasdaq.net
• www.nasdaqtrader.com

• NYSE Equities - The New York Stock Exchange high-tech, high-touch model for trading equities perfectly pairs state-of-the-art technology with all of the advantages of human judgment, offering the greatest flexibility and price discovery possible.
• NYSE Alternext US - More than 500 Amex-listed companies are joining NYSE Euronext, adding to it a US platform for small-cap companies and building on the company’s leadership position in global listings.
• NYSE Arca Equities - NYSE Arca’s all-electronic trading platform provides fast execution and open, direct and anonymous market access. Our distinct market structure delivers the advantages of deep liquidity, significant transparency and tremendous efficiency.
• Euronext Equities - NYSE Euronext is the primary market in the Eurozone for large- and medium-sized companies. It is the first integrated cross-border exchange, combining in a single market the stock exchanges of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.
• NYSE Alternext Equities - NYSE Alternext is a pan-European market designed specifically for emerging companies. Listed companies benefit from more flexible access requirements and innovative operating rules while ensuring market transparency.
• ArcaEdge - ArcaEdge is a faster, more efficient and fair way to trade over-the-counter bulletin board (OTCBB) stocks, while experiencing the same benefits that NYSE Arca offers on its NYSE Arca platform.
  

• Liffe Futures/Options - Europe's leading derivatives exchange by value of trading.
• NYSE Arca Options - one of the fastest growing US options trading platforms.
• NYSE Amex Options - with the acquisition of the Amex, NYSE Euronext is now the third-largest US equity options marketplace based on number of contracts traded.
• NYSE Liffe - our new US futures market is the home for futures and options on precious metals.
  

• www.nyse.com
• www.nyxdata.com
  
• www.euronext.com
• www.liffe.com
• www.amex.com

The OTC Bulletin Board® (OTCBB) is a regulated quotation service that displays real-time quotes, last-sale prices, and volume information in over-the-counter (OTC) equity securities. An OTC equity security generally is any equity that is not listed or traded on NASDAQ or a national securities exchange. OTCBB securities include national, regional, and foreign equity issues, warrants, units, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), and Direct Participation Programs (DPPs).

Pink OTC Markets, Inc. provides the leading inter-dealer electronic quotation and trading system in the over-the-counter (OTC) securities market. We create innovative technology and data solutions to efficiently connect market participants, improve price discovery, increase issuer disclosure, and better inform investors. Pink OTC Markets operates the third largest US equity trading venue which includes both the elite OTCQX market tiers for strong OTC-traded companies that can satisfy financial and disclosure listing standards and Pink Sheets for all other OTC quoted securities. Over 230 financial services firms, including the ten largest US investment banks, actively make markets in OTCQX and Pink Sheets securities. In 2007, these firms traded over $160 billion of OTCQX and Pink Sheets securities. Pink OTC Markets offers widespread access to all US broker-dealers, enabling investors to seamlessly trade these securities through their institutional, online, or full service brokers.

• Pink OTC Markets - PinkSheets | www.pinksheets.com
• OTCQX - The Premier OTC Market Tier, Primary and Cross Listings | www.otcqx.com

SecondMarket is the largest centralized marketplace for illiquid assets, such as auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, private company stock, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, restricted securities and blocks in small capitalization companies and whole loans. SecondMarket’s online trading platform has 3,000 participants, including global financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, corporations and other institutional and accredited investors that collectively manage over $1 trillion in assets available for investment.

In addition, SecondMarket facilitates all administrative and settlement support services for executing both private and public transactions involving illiquid assets. We have the expertise to handle even the most complex transactions efficiently. Our team manages the entire process, from pre-sale due diligence through execution and settlement, to ensure regulatory compliance and the most efficient settlement possible.

• SecondMarket - www.secondmarket.com

• Arizona Stock Exchange (AZX) - Ceased operations in 2001

• Baltimore Stock Exchange - Merged with Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1949

• Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) - Has been acquired by the NASDAQ OMX

• Buffalo Stock Exchange - Closed in 1936

• Cincinnati Stock Exchange - Moved to Chicago and renamed National Stock Exchange in 1995

• Cleveland Stock Exchange - Merged with Stock Exchanges of Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and St. Louis to form Midwest Stock Exchange in 1949

• Colorado Springs Stock Exchange - Closed in 1966

• Denver Stock Exchange - Closed in 1936

• Detroit Stock Exchange - Closed in 1976

• Hartford Stock Exchange - Closed in 1934

• Honolulu Stock Exchange - Closed in 1977

• Los Angeles Oil Exchange - Merged with San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange in 1957, which became Pacific Exchange in 1997

• Louisville Stock Exchange - Closed in 1935

• Midwest Stock Exchange - Renamed Chicago Stock Exchange in 1993

• Milwaukee Stock Exchange - Closed in 1938

• Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange - Merged with Stock Exchanges of Chicago, Cleveland, and St. Louis to form Midwest Stock Exchange in 1949

• New Orleans Stock Exchange - Merged with Midwest Stock Exchange in 1959

• Pacific Exchange - Closed Los Angeles and San Francisco trading floors in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Continues operations as NYSE Arca

• Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (PHLX) - acquired by the Nasdaq OMX PHLX on July 24, 2008

• Pittsburgh Stock Exchange - Merged with Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1996

• Richmond Stock Exchange - Closed in 1972

• St. Louis Stock Exchange - Merged with Stock Exchanges of Chicago, Cleveland, and Minneapolis-St. Paul to form Midwest Stock Exchange in 1949

• Salt Lake City Stock Exchange - Closed in 1986

• San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange - Merged with Los Angeles Oil Exchange to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange in 1957, which became Pacific Exchange in 1997

• Seattle Stock Exchange - Closed in 1942

• Spokane Stock Exchange - Closed in 1991

• Washington, D.C. Stock Exchange - Merged with Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1953

• Wheeling Stock Exchange - Closed in 1965