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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: NFL Draft Prospect Dre Kirkpatrick visits the NYSE Trading Floor at New York Stock Exchange on April 25, 2012 in New York City.

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  • Subway bomb plotter details Taliban link

    Testifying publicly for the first time, New York City subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi told a Brooklyn federal court jury Tuesday that he and two Queens friends went to Pakistan to join the Taliban and didn't take it seriously the first time an attack i   Read more »

  • Biz Buzz

    NATION Facebook likes Nasdaq for IPO Facebook Inc. , preparing what would be Silicon Valley 's largest IPO, has picked Nasdaq over the New York Stock Exchange for its listing, a source familiar with the situation said Thursday. The choice is a major victor   Read more »

  • Resident ordered to return pier to neighbor

    ALBANY -- Robert Becker built a dock at his Oak Beach cottage in the mid-1960s with no reason to doubt it was on his property. But it wasn't that simple.After a long legal fight, New York 's highest court ruled Tuesday that it was Becker's -- but not until   Read more »

  • UPS, Apple, Sprint Nextel are market movers

    -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market : NYSE United Parcel Service Inc. , up $2.70 at $81.11The delivery company said it will buy Netherlands-based TNT Express NV, an express mail   Read more »

  • Dole, Transocean, New York & Co. are market movers

    -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market : NYSE Dole Food Co. Inc., up $1.16 at $11.13The fruit and vegetable company said that it returned to profitability in its fiscal fourth quarter   Read more »

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About NYSE

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board", is a stock exchange based in New York City. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and, with 2,764 listed securities, has the second most securities of all stock exchanges. It was the second biggest stock exchange in the world in terms of company listings, second only to NASDAQ with 3,200 companies, before the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of India consolidated to become the biggest stock exchange in the world with 4,800 company listings as of August 2007. As of December 31, 2006, the combined capitalization of all New York Stock Exchange listed companies was $25.0 trillion.

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