AMEX Stock
Exchange Description
The alliance of technology and people is a hallmark of auction
market trading, and the AMEX has been a pioneer in market
innovation for nearly a century.
Today at
the American Stock Exchange, specialists, traders and brokers
use the world's most sophisticated, advanced technology to
enhance trading efficiency and reliability for the investing
public.
AMEX
technology improves customer service for all of the auction
market participants each step of the way. For listed companies
and their investors, our state-of-the-art trading ensures
trading fairness. Member firms receive instantaneous order
processing and reconciliation. Electronic display books greatly
assist AMEX Specialists in maintaining efficient and liquid
markets, resulting in narrower spreads for customers.
AMEX Stock Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
The
American Stock Exchange’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Marketplace includes ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and iShares
such as, QQQ (Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock, QUBES), DIA
(DIAMONDS), and SPY (Select Sector SPDRs). Listed and traded in
the Marketplace is an entire family of ETFs – index-based
investment products that let you buy or sell shares of entire
portfolios of stock in a single security. Pioneered by the Amex,
these unique financial products combine the opportunities of
indexing with the advantages of stock trading.
With ETFs
based on broad-market, sector and international indexes, you
have a wide range of investment opportunities. You have the
ability to establish long-term investments in the market
performance of the leading companies in the leading industries
in the United States, or you can custom tailor asset allocations
using a range of ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) to fit your
particular investment needs or goals. You can hold ETFs based on
a broad-market index as a core investment, for example, then use
additional ETFs to increase your exposure in sector and/or
international index performance.
AMEX Stock Exchange History
In 1995, the AMEX became the first U.S. stock market to maintain
a presence on the world wide web, offering a site rich with
comprehensive data on our listed companies, options, derivatives
and capital markets products. We link, the exclusive, automated
service for our listed companies, offers potential investors and
shareholders a range of information on every AMEX stock.
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