On Wednesday, continuing his visit in the United States, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius opened the NASDAQ Stock Market morning trading session in New York. Prime Minister Kubilius delivered a short address during the morning bell-ringing ceremony, which had been hosted by a number of famous people from around the world; the Prime Minister noted that a branch of the NASDAQ OMX Group has been operating in Lithuania as Vilnius Stock Exchange.
During the opening ceremony of the trading session, Senior Vice President of New Listings and the Capital Markets Group of the NASDAQ OMX Group Robert H. McCooey, Jr. presented Lithuania as a country attractive for investment and stressed that the NASDAQ OMX Group, which owns NASDAQ OMX Vilnius Stock Exchange and had invested into the Central Securities Depository of Lithuania, has a strategic interest to develop capital markets in the Baltic Region.
“Be farsighted, invest in Lithuania. Lithuania is a dynamic and courageous country that likes winning and knows how to do it. By investing into Lithuania, we shall win together!” said Prime Minister Kubilius during the opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market morning trading session.
According to President and Chairman of the Management Board of NASDAQ OMX Vilnius Arminta Saladžienė, the NASDAQ MarketSite located in NY Times Square, is considered a symbol of progress with respect to modern technologies, business and financial world. Therefore, it is especially delightful that it was there that Lithuania was introduced to the financial community during the investment-targeted visit of Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius.
NASDAQ opening and closing bell ceremonies have been hosted by different high-ranking state officials such as U.S. President Barack Obama or U.S. Secretary of State Ms. Clinton and other well-known figures. It is here that corporate highlight events are marked by best-known companies, listed at NASDAQ OMX, such as Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, Cisco, and many others.
AB Nasdaq OMX Vilnius is a new name to AB Vilnius Stock Exchange. Name changing was another step towards integration into the world’s largest stock exchange operator NASDAQ OMX.