Nasdaq Quotes

A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed to trade closed-end funds. NASDAQ's electronic trading is efficient, translating into excellent retail investor access. And NASDAQ Market Makers are well qualified to address the nuances of trading closed-end funds. - Bruce Aust

A full-fledged recovery pretty much depends on the U.S. market. Japan's high-tech shares rose on the back of their U.S. counterparts last year, so their vulnerability to losses on the Nasdaq is inevitable. - Tetsuya Ishijima

A couple of things made a marked difference for Nasdaq this year. They completed a secondary offering early in the year, which gave visibility to their cost-cutting and market-share gains. The strong performance of exchange stocks later in the year also helped lift Nasdaq. Finally, there's revenue growth, and the potential to take listed share next year as the New York Stock Exchange goes automated. - Rich Repetto

[What's more, a raft of big players is poised to encroach on Vonage's turf. Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) , Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) , and Google are all aggressively pushing into PC-to-PC Web calling. That's] their first step into IP waters... Then, the race is going to be on. - Mitch Mitchell

[Still, Nasdaq feels even the adapted rule is still too restrictive. From Nasdaq,] it's very simple to change your stock exchange... The process can be as short as 48 hours. We believe you should be able to basically fire you stock exchange if you're not getting the service you should. - Scott Peterson

[( TIME.com ) -- Great news! Unemployment is up. Wages are stagnant. Hiring by U.S. companies is down for the first time in more than four years. But there might be some help wanted on Wall Street soon, because Friday's unemployment report is the stuff rallies are made of. Just a half hour into the trading day, the Dow was up 175 and the NASDAQ almost 200 (with inflation-fearing bonds whooping it up right alongside them) as investors saw visions of the long season of economic overdrive, interest-rate hikes and neurotic markets drawing to a close.] This is the latest sign that the economy is slowing down, and because these are labor numbers, they're going to have particular weight with the Fed... This is the kind of news that could take some of the uncertainty out of the markets and get stocks going up again. - Bernard Baumohl

...There is no scientific way of determining where the Nasdaq bottom is...the money is flowing into safer havens. - Larry Wachtel

(The) reverse split would be to take our stock above $1 to regain continued listing compliance on the Nasdaq. We have until Sept. 11, 2006, to have 10 consecutive days of bid price $1 in order to regain compliance. - Reid Cox

(Biotechnology) is keeping the Nasdaq up... As bids start to firm, money is flowing back in, and that's causing the Nasdaq to outperform the blue chips. - Barry Hyman