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Visit both the NYSE Homepage, and the NASDAQ Homepage, and discuss how the two exchanges operate. Make sure to address the following three questions:

How are NYSE and NASDAQ similar, if at all?
How are the two exchanges different from one another, if at all?
What is The Public Company Accounting and Investor Protection Act of 2002? Describe the law in your own words.

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Visit both the NYSE Homepage, and the NASDAQ Homepage, and write a paper of 2â?"3 pages on how the two exchanges operate. Make sure to address the following three questions:
How are NYSE and NASDAQ similar, if at all?
The NYSE and the NASDAQ are similar because of several reasons. Both are stock exchanges where equity is traded. Both, the NYSE and the NASDAQ provide increased marketability and ease of financing for the companies listed in those exchanges. In addition, the companies that are listed in each of NYSE and the NASDAQ inspire greater confidence in their customers, employees, and investors. Both, the NYSE and the NASDAQ enable transactions of shares and provides liquidity to the shares of companies. Both the exchanges allow shareholders to select the shares they want to buy and made the transactions. These exchanges are similar because they provide an insight into the economic activity in the country. Further, NYSE and the NASDAQ enable the shareholders to partake of the profits of firms from the economic activity. Both the NYSE and the NASDAQ use information technology for automated trading, and faster operation of the stock exchanges. The two exchanges impose certain listing requirements on the companies and this helps instill a degree of discipline on the companies listed on ...

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