Stockholm, September 7, 2012 - NASDAQ OMX Nordic announces that trading in
weekly options starts today on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB market. The weekly
options are traded with expiration every Friday, thus complementing the
existing options products with monthly expiration. Weekly options are listed
every Thursday after close enabling investors to trade options expiring in one
or two weeks. The OMXS30 index will act as underlying for the weekly options.
"Martin Granlund, head of Nordic derivatives NASDAQ OMX, said: "We have launched the weekly options offering in response to customer demand as this has been a highly popular instrument in other markets and we believe the timing is right in Sweden. Weeklies provide additional opportunities for investors to tailor their investment strategies more precisely as they offer more expiries, tighter strike price intervals and a decreased tick size. As a consequence, options will be even more interesting as a risk management tool."
Jan Dinkelspiel, Country General Manager Sweden at Nordnet, said: "Options provide an efficient means to balance investment portfolios and tend to be an especially attractive hedging instrument during times of market turbulence. The weekly option offering from NASDAQ OMX is an excellent complement to the traditional monthly options and creates flexibility for active investors to act on short-term events rather than being tied into one monthly exercise date."
For more information visit: http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com/weeklyoptionsinfo/.
About options An option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in that transaction, while the seller incurs the corresponding obligation to fulfill the transaction. The price of an option derives from the difference between the reference price and the value of the underlying asset (e.g. a stock or index) plus a premium based on the time remaining until the expiration of the option.
An option which conveys the right to buy something at a specific price is called a call; an option which conveys the right to sell something at a specific price is called a put. The reference price at which the underlying asset may be traded is called the strike price or exercise price. The process of activating an option and thereby trading the underlying asset at the agreed-upon price is referred to as exercising it. Most options have an expiration date. If the option is not exercised by the expiration date, it becomes void and worthless. All investments are subject to risk. We encourage you to learn more by contacting your bank or broker for advice.
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About NASDAQ OMX The inventor and transformer of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies with revolutionary technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 6 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-80 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 exchanges in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. 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. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements The matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about NASDAQ OMX's products and offerings. 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 OMX's control. These factors include, but are not limited to factors detailed in NASDAQ OMX'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.
Media contact: Carl Norell +46 8 405 66 39 carl.norell@nasdaqomx.com
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"Martin Granlund, head of Nordic derivatives NASDAQ OMX, said: "We have launched the weekly options offering in response to customer demand as this has been a highly popular instrument in other markets and we believe the timing is right in Sweden. Weeklies provide additional opportunities for investors to tailor their investment strategies more precisely as they offer more expiries, tighter strike price intervals and a decreased tick size. As a consequence, options will be even more interesting as a risk management tool."
Jan Dinkelspiel, Country General Manager Sweden at Nordnet, said: "Options provide an efficient means to balance investment portfolios and tend to be an especially attractive hedging instrument during times of market turbulence. The weekly option offering from NASDAQ OMX is an excellent complement to the traditional monthly options and creates flexibility for active investors to act on short-term events rather than being tied into one monthly exercise date."
For more information visit: http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com/weeklyoptionsinfo/.
About options An option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in that transaction, while the seller incurs the corresponding obligation to fulfill the transaction. The price of an option derives from the difference between the reference price and the value of the underlying asset (e.g. a stock or index) plus a premium based on the time remaining until the expiration of the option.
An option which conveys the right to buy something at a specific price is called a call; an option which conveys the right to sell something at a specific price is called a put. The reference price at which the underlying asset may be traded is called the strike price or exercise price. The process of activating an option and thereby trading the underlying asset at the agreed-upon price is referred to as exercising it. Most options have an expiration date. If the option is not exercised by the expiration date, it becomes void and worthless. All investments are subject to risk. We encourage you to learn more by contacting your bank or broker for advice.
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About NASDAQ OMX The inventor and transformer of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies with revolutionary technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 6 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-80 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 exchanges in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. 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. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements The matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about NASDAQ OMX's products and offerings. 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 OMX's control. These factors include, but are not limited to factors detailed in NASDAQ OMX'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.
Media contact: Carl Norell +46 8 405 66 39 carl.norell@nasdaqomx.com
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