NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced it has introduced a new stock market application called NASDAQ Portfolio Manager (QFolio) now available from the Apple App Store. With the NASDAQ Portfolio Manager, investors can use their iPhone or iPod touch to build a quick watch list or a detailed portfolio of U.S. stocks to track price performance in real time, access pre-market and after-hour quotes and view dynamic charts. The NASDAQ Portfolio Manager also provides access to StockTwits -- a rapidly growing community for private investors.
A video accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=176455
"Investing and watching the markets have gone mobile and there is a significant demand from iPhone and iPod touch users for real-time market tools and information," said Anna Ewing, Chief Information Officer of NASDAQ OMX. "At NASDAQ OMX we believe in market transparency and making real time prices available to everyone so we developed the NASDAQ Portfolio Manager as a way for investors to access and work with the most critical information they seek."
The NASDAQ Portfolio Manager is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.
About NASDAQ OMX
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,700 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx).
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