NASDAQ OMX Announces Third Quarter and Year-to-Date Global Index Group Report

NEW YORK, Oct 22, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- 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.

Business Highlights

 * NASDAQ OMX completed the acquisition of the Philadelphia Stock
   Exchange. The Global Index Group is now responsible for the
   calculation and licensing of the PHLX Sector Index Series.

 * NASDAQ OMX launched the NASDAQ OMX Europe Index on September 26.
   The NASDAQ OMX Europe Index is a market capitalized weighted index
   designed to track the companies traded on the NASDAQ OMX Europe
   Marketplace.

 * During the third quarter, the NASDAQ-100 Index Future, listed on
   the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), became the second equity-
   index future to cross the threshold of 500 million contracts
   traded with a notional value greater than $25 trillion.

 * NASDAQ OMX launched 32 new indexes in the third quarter and a
   total of 53 indexes through September 30, 2008.

 * Ten ETFs were introduced based on NASDAQ OMX Indexes.  Eight of the
   ETFs were listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) while one was
   launched on the London Stock Exchange and one on XETRA.

 * The NASDAQ Financial-100 Index significantly outperformed other
   financial indexes by returning 13.48% in the third quarter.

Index Performance

During the third quarter and year-to-date, NASDAQ OMX indexes -- the benchmark for 36 ETFs worldwide -- paced the market for both broad-based and sector performance. The table below shows the third quarter and year-to-date performances of some of NASDAQ OMX's top performing indexes:

 Name                                YTD (9/30/08) 3rd Quarter
 PHLX Housing Index                        -10.06%       20.23%
 NASDAQ Financial-100 Index                -11.03%       13.48%
 NASDAQ Biotechnology Index                  0.13%        5.38%
 OMRX Treasury Bond Index                    5.52%        5.25%
 NASDAQ OMX Global Biotechnology Index(1)    8.42%        5.02%
 OMRX Total Bond Index                       3.11%        2.95%
 OMRX Treasury Bill Index                    3.11%        1.07%
 OMRX Real Return Bond Index                 3.99%        1.03%
 PHLX Retail Index                         -12.98%        0.65%
 PHLX Defense Index                        -14.63%       -3.59%
 NASDAQ Composite Index                    -21.13%       -8.77%
 OMX GES Sustainability Sweden Index       -25.94%       -8.91%
 OMX Stockholm 30 Index                    -28.94%      -10.40%
 NASDAQ Transportation Index               -20.69%      -12.70%
 NASDAQ-100 Index                          -23.52%      -13.20%

New Indexes

In the third quarter, NASDAQ OMX developed the following new indexes (both price and total return variants for a total of 32 new indexes):

 Name                                               Ticker
 NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture Index                QAGR
 NASDAQ OMX Global Gold & Precious Metals Index     QGLD
 NASDAQ OMX Global Biotechnology Index1             QGBI
 NASDAQ OMX Global Coal Index                       QCOL
 NASDAQ OMX Global Steel Index                      QSTL
 NASDAQ OMX Ireland Index                           QIRL
 Wilder NASDAQ OMX Global Energy Efficient
  Transport Index                                   HAUL
 NASDAQ OMX Europe Index                            NEUX
 OMX GES Sustainability Sweden Price Index          OMXSUSTAINSEPI
 OMX GES Sustainability Sweden Ethical Price Index  OMXSUSTETHSEPI
 OMX GES  Ethical Nordic Index                      OMXETHICALNC
 OMX GES  Ethical Sweden Index                      OMXETHICALSE
 OMX GES  Ethical Denmark Index                     OMXETHICALDK
 OMX GES  Ethical Finland Index                     OMXETHICALFI
 OMX GES  Ethical Norway Index                      OMXETHICALNO
 OMX GES OMXS-30 Ethical Index                      OMXS30ETHICPI

New ETF Listings

The following ETFs based on NASDAQ indexes listed on NASDAQ during the third quarter of 2008:

 Name                                               Ticker
 PowerShares Global Agriculture Portfolio           PAGG
 PowerShares Global Steel Portfolio                 PSTL
 PowerShares Global Gold & Precious Metals
  Portfolio                                         PSAU
 PowerShares Global Coal Portfolio                  PKOL
 PowerShares Global Progressive Transportation
  Portfolio                                         PTRP
 PowerShares Global Biotech Portfolio               PBTQ
 PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio           PWND
 PowerShares MENA Frontier Countries Portfolio      PMNA

The following ETFs based on NASDAQ indexes listed on other markets during the third quarter of 2008:

 Name                                               Ticker
 PowerShares Global Agriculture Fund                PSGA LN
 ComStage ETF Nasdaq-100 (CBNDX GR)                 CBNDX GR

About NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group

NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group is engaged in the design, development, calculation, licensing and marketing of NASDAQ OMX indexes. The Global Index Group specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ OMX's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth and globalization. The Global Index Group also provides custom index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected financial organizations. For more information about NASDAQ OMX indexes, visit www.nasdaq.com/indexes.

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 3,900 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; the OMX Nordic Exchange, including First North; and the 144A PORTAL Market. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. OMX Nordic Exchange is not a legal entity but describes the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The matters described herein may contain forward-looking statements that are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond NASDAQ's control. These factors include, but are not limited to, factors detailed in NASDAQ's annual report on Form 10-K, and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements.

(1)Index performance includes back-tested index values prior to the index's dissemination date, which are indicative and NASDAQ OMX makes no guarantee of the accuracy of the back-tested data.

The ETFs set forth above are not issued, endorsed, sold, or promoted by NASDAQ OMX. NASDAQ OMX MAKES NO WARRANTIES AND BEARS NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE ETFS.

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