You Gotta Believe and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Star of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York, to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell


ADVISORY, Oct. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

You Gotta Believe, a non-profit organization committed to finding adoptive parents for pre-teens, teens and young adults, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to celebrate its 15th year anniversary, which will take place on October 19th at CIBO Restaurant (767 Second Ave in New York City – 6:30-9:30pm).

In honor of the occasion Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, star of Bravo's "Real Housewives of New York" and the recipient of You Gotta Believe's Humanitarian Award at their Believer's Benefit, will officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET

Company Contact
Pete Sanders
(646) 430-5643
psanders@js2comm.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

The entire Closing Bell is available from 3:50 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. on AMC-3/C-3 (dl 3760H). The feed can also be found on Ascent fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact Jen Knapp (212) 401-8916.

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Close, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market close of your choice.

About You Gotta Believe:

Founded in 1994, You Gotta Believe was started by Pat O'Brien and a group of adoptive parents of teens and young people who had aged out of foster care. You Gotta Believe has successfully placed over 400 teens with permanent families, and trained hundreds of prospective parents with their combination approach of general recruiting methods and their own developed "Finding Families Model". To date, You Gotta Believe remains as the only organization in the United States with its sole mission to find permanent adoptive homes for teens. In continuing its mission, You Gotta Believe has recently developed its 2015 vision to place 25% of children aging out of foster care with an unconditionally committed, loving and permanent family. www.yougottabelieve.org

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 more than 3,500 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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