NASDAQ Celebrates 20 Years in the Valley
First Published Wednesday, 17th March 2010 03:07 pm from Xand : Landon Long
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It's a rare day when stock traders on Wall
Street, can hear a bell struck all the way on the West Coast.
Well, it happened today, when NASDAQ's opening and
closing bells rang from the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Today's ceremonies celebrated NASDAQ's
20-year history in the valley, and was attended by NASDAQ CEO
Robert Greifeld, NASDAQ EVP Bruce Aust, San Jose Mayor Chuck
Reed, the San Jose City Council, local business executives,
national press affiliates and myself.
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While I have always supported
the Silicon Valley as a hub of global innovation, it was
surprising to learn that there are currently 513 NASDAQ listed
companies in California, with 210 of them in the Silicon Valley.
I was amazed that this little sliver of the world has an
impressive $1 trillion USD in combined market capitalization.
With these facts fresh in my mind, I ran back to the office to
dig into our web services and learn more about these companies.
Being a 30 year
resident of the valley, even I was surprised by the high number
of NASDAQ listed companies within 20 minutes of my office; Adobe
Systems ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=ADBE">ADBE
-0.47), Apple ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=AAPL">AAPL
+0.71), Applied Materials ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=AMAT">AMAT
+0.22), Cisco ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=CSCO">CSCO
+0.07), eBay ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=EBAY">EBAY
+0.51), Electronic Arts ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=ERTS">ERTS
+0.28), Google ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=GOOG">GOOG
+2.02), Intuit ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=INTU">INTU
+0.01), LAM Research ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=LRCX">LRCX
+1.06), SanDisk ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=SNDK">SNDK
+0.36), Symantec ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=SYMC">SYMC
-0.01), Yahoo ( href="http://www.xignite.com/xNASDAQLastSale.asmx/GetLastSale?Symbol=YHOO">YHOO
-0.0608) and 200 other wonderful Silicon Valley
companies.
While conducting this impromptu
research, I was reminded how quick it is to obtain exactly the
data sets that I needed, and how much I love the ease and
simplicity of financial web services. Overall, it was a good day
for local corporations, a wonderful day for NASDAQ, and a sign
that the Silicon Valley will continue to be a hub of technical
innovation for decades to come.
Closing Bell
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