The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the completion of its acquisition of Nord Pool's clearing, international derivatives and consulting subsidiaries. The combined companies will launch a new offering, 'NASDAQ OMX Commodities,' based on Nord Pool's energy and carbon derivatives products.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the third quarter and year-to-date activities report for the NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group. The Global Index Group creates and licenses indexes, which are the basis of financial instruments, and provides full-service index support to financial product issuers, sponsors and investors.

Following its successful launch and the rollout of over 500 securities, NASDAQ OMX Europe today announced it will introduce a price promotion positioning NASDAQ OMX Europe as the most competitively priced trading platform in Europe.

At the end of the settlement date of October 15, 2008, short interest in 2,609 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 7,959,011,057 shares compared with 8,884,212,187 shares in 2,620 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 30, 2008.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that it will host its first Middle East Investor Conference in Dubai on November 20, 2008.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.(sm) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of September 2008.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced its new real-time market data service is now available to millions of individual investors in Europe. "European Last Sale" is now offered by Borsen, Denmark's largest financial newspaper, as well as Netposten.dk, both popular Danish financial websites.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced a new roadmap for its Nordic equity market to further strengthen the functionality and liquidity of the market for the benefit of all market participants. The key moves include:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a 22% equity stake in European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) from Fortis Bank Nederland (Holding) N.V.(FBN). EMCF is a central counterparty clearing house for European equity trading on exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, including NASDAQ OMX Europe Ltd., Chi-X Europe Ltd. and BATS Trading Europe Ltd. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.

At the end of the settlement date of September 30, 2008, short interest in 2,620 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 8,884,212,187 shares compared with 9,887,521,820 shares in 2,615 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 15, 2008. The end-of-September short interest represents 3.23 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 5.21 days for the prior reporting period.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its OMX Nordic Exchange for the month of September 2008.

he NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today the results of the semi-annual evaluation of the NASDAQ OMX Clean Edge Global Wind Energy Index (Nasdaq:QWND).