El Banco Santander Brazil today staged the opening ceremony of its trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) coinciding with the start of trading of its shares in this market and also in the Bag Sao Paulo. This is the world's largest IPO so far in 2009.

The scarce economic news and the worries about the future of the economy do not give investors direction, therefore in the early trading the stocks point to lower opening.

Raser Technologies, a leading energy technology company, rang The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this morning commemorating its listing on the Big Board where Raser recently began trading in December 2008 and thus once more putting the creation of alternative and green energy sources in the public spotlight.

On Monday, Circuit City confirmed what was rumored on Sunday: they are going to close 155 stores. This is just more bad news for Circuit City; it was warned last week by the NYSE over possible delisting as a result of its stock price being below $1 as a 30-day moving average.

Cheers and Champagne on Wall Street As Eliot Spitzer Falls From Grace.

Intel's weak outlook is punishing not only the tech stocks, but also the entire US markets. While the stocks are poised to open weak, they have come out of their worst levels.

U.S. markets closed mixed on Thursday from continued concerns over the uncertain credit markets and a weakening economy. A slew of poor news from the financial sector set the sour tone for Thursday.

The stock markets in USA are looking to make modest gains and to the possible Federal reserve interest rate cut. Fed's rate cut action may overshadow the subprime losses and give the markets a lift.

The New York Stock Exchange announced that trading in the following related security of Hilton Hotels Corporation will be suspended at the opening of business on October 25, 2007 . Following suspension, application will be made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delist the issue.

The New York Stock Exchange today (August 30) released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Aug. 20-24.

The New York Stock Exchange today (August 23) released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms.

NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX) today (August 22) announced that three Claymore/Morningstar Index ETFs listed and began trading on NYSE Arca.