The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has appointed Steve Matthews as Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of its Pan-European Market initiative, a high-volume trading platform which will link multiple trading pools across Europe. Mr. Matthews will oversee all legal and compliance work, as well as surveillance functions for the Pan-European Market. NASDAQ OMX announced its Pan-European Market in March and plans to launch in September, pending FSA approval.

The American Stock Exchange listed the common stock of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. under the ticker symbol RNN.

NYSE Euronext will introduce two new data products – NYSE OpenBook Ultra and NYSE Order Imbalances – that will significantly enhance the transparency of the New York Stock Exchange with a combination of more information, faster speed and other benefits for customers.

The American Stock Exchange opened trading on Citigroup Funding Inc.’s Strategic Market Access Notes Based Upon the Citi U.S. Equity Model Index.

At the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2008, short interest in 2,641 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 9,500,539,527 shares compared with 9,427,457,178 shares in 2,653 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 30, 2008. The mid-May short interest represents 4.53 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.86 days for the prior reporting period.

The American Stock Exchange opened trading on Citigroup Funding Inc.’s Stock Market Upturn Notes Based Upon the MSCI EAFE Index.

In an announcement made yesterday at the annual meeting held in Denver, Colorado, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust and Noah's Ark were named as two of the four national honorees of the Excellence in Exhibition Competition organized by the American Association of Museums.

In the spirit of the first Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam from Brazil in 1694, the Museum invites the community to join the critically acclaimed master of Sephardic song, Gerard Edery and an accomplished ensemble of international musicians for the world premiere of The Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate, A 500Year Musical Journey.

"Walk to Envision,” the second of five exhibitions by international Museum as Hub partner organizations. Organized by Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea, the show features twelve new artworks by artists Koh Seung Wook, Sangdon Kim, Rho Jae Oon, and siren eun young jung. The exhibition is on view at the New Museum through July 6, 2008.

On Thursday, June 12 join author Marion Kaplan for a discussion of her new book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 19401945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008), which serves as the companion volume to the groundbreaking, bilingual installation, Sosua: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic (Sosua: Un Refugio de Judios en la Republica Dominicana).

The Museum of Arts & Design will inaugurate its new home at Columbus Circle with Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, a special thematic exhibition featuring 40 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless objects into extraordinary works of art.

NYSE Euronext (NYX ) today announced the launch of three additional Northern Trust's Northern Exchange Traded Shares (NETS) ETF products. As an industry leader in ETF and ETN listings and trading, such products listed on NYSE Arca represent 56% of ETF and ETN assets under management in the U.S. , nearly $613 billion, the most of any exchange.