NASDAQ

Definition: NASDAQ

NASDAQ

Noun

1. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
NASDAQ	English	National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Systems	N/A
NASDAQ	French	National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation	Finance
NASDAQ	German	National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Nasdaq, originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, is a stock market run by the National Association of Securities Dealers. When it began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market. Since 1999, it is the largest American stock exchange with over half the companies traded in the United States listed. Nasdaq is made up of the Nasdaq National Market and the Nasdaq SmallCap Market. The main exchange is located in the United States of America with exchanges in Canada and Japan. They also have associations with exchanges in Hong Kong and Europe.

Nasdaq allows multiple market participants to trade through its electronic communications networks (ECNs) structure, increasing competition. The Small Order Execution System (SOES) is another Nasdaq feature, introduced in 1984, to ensure that in 'turbulent' market conditions small market orders are not forgotten but are automatically processed. On July 17, 1995 the Nasdaq stock index closed above the 1,000 mark for the first time. In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge on November 9, 1998 approved a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claimed they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the Nasdaq.

In 2002 NASDAQ adopted Super Montage or SUMO, which allows market makers show up to 5 levels of their prices. Eventually, SOES was replaced by SUMO.

Nasdaq was closed from September 11 to 14, 2001 as a result of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.

Financial Abbreviation: NASDAQ

Companies

List of companies traded at Nasdaq
Nasdaq 100

External link

Official website: http://www.nasdaq.com/

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mart	Ticker, stock ticker, quotation; stock index, market index, the Dow Jones Index, the Dow Industrials, the transportation index, utilities, the utilities index; the New York Stock Exchange index, the Nikkei index; the Financial Times index, the FTI, the over-the-counter index, NASDAQ index.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Handbook of Nasdaq Stocks (reference) Mergent's Select Nasdaq Stocks 2001 (reference) Nasdaq Handbook: The Stock Market for the Next 100 Years: A Complete Reference for Investors, Registered Representatives, Company Executives, Resea (reference) NASDAQ Investor [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) The Nasdaq Trader's Toolkit (Wiley Online Trading for a Living) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Daily Stock Price Record Nasdaq - Microfiche (reference) Nasdaq Subscriber Bulletin (reference) Nasdaq Symbol Directory (reference) Standard & Poors Daily Stock Price Record Nasdaq (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Advanced Day Trading: Using Chart Patterns and Nasdaq Level 2 (reference) Nasdaq Level II Trading Strategies (reference) Trading with Nasdaq Level II Quotes (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Belgium	In April 2001, NASDAQ took a majority share in EASDAQ, which was subsequently rebaptized into NASDAQ Europe. (references)
	Ireland	In recent years, emerging high technology and dotcom companies have secured listings on the Nasdaq and German Neuer markets. (references)
	Israel	Therefore, the NASDAQ crisis influenced the outlook of the Israeli market on hi-tech in general, and software in particular. (references)
Trade	Japan	After one year of operation, NASDAQ Japan listed only 56 companies as of June 2001. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The Democrats are already on record saying that we're in the midst of the steepest decline in the NASDAQ since the Great Depression, which, of course, is a flat-out lie.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"NASDAQ" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NASDAQ" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Expressions using "NASDAQ": nasdaq index ♦ Nasdaq Stock Market. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "NASDAQ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		那斯达克. (various references)

Danish		National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

Dutch		NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

Finnish		National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

French		National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

German		National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation System (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

Italian		National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ナイル鰐 (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, knapsack, knuckle, knuckle ball, knuckle four, knuckle part, NASA, NASA fashion, NASTAR ski, national, national ad, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, national atlas, national bank, national brand, National Center of Trade Unions, national chain, national character, national consensus, national convention, national costume, national game, national holiday, national identity, national interest, National League, national minimum, national park, national prestige, national product, national project, national security, National Standard Race ski, National Trust, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, Nationalsozialist, NATO, Natrium lamp, natural, natural cheese, natural color, natural foods, natural grip, natural science, natural selection, natural turn, natural wave, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic, naturalization, naturalize, Nazi, Nazism, Nile crocodile, nine, no, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nothing, now, now-now-ism, nugget, nut, nuts, nylon, sodium, trendy, up-to-date). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ナスダック . (various references)

Pig Latin		asdaqnay.(various references)

Spanish		NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), sistema NASDAQ (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), sistema de cotización automatizado de la Asociación Nacional de Comercializadores de Valores (Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"NASDAQ" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nasd, Nasdim, Nashdom, Nasta, Nhadau, Nijdam, Nisad. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-n-q-s"
	-1 letter: nadas.
	-2 letters: anas, ands, ansa, nada, sand.
	-3 letters: aas, ads, ana, and, sad.
	-4 letters: aa, ad, an, as, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-n-q-s"
	+2 letters: quadrans.
	+3 letters: qindarkas, quadrants, quandangs.
	+4 letters: pasquinade, quadrantes, quandaries.
	+5 letters: pasquinaded, pasquinades, quadrangles.
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