Commissioner Raymond Kelly tours the trading floor. Commissoner Kelly rings The Opening Bell. Cathedral High School’s band on the march. Lucky treats the Street to handfuls of Charms. From Marisa Ricciardi: Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Lucky the Leprechaun sprinkled a bit of magic on the NYSE as employees received boxes of L...

From Marisa Ricciardi: March Madness made its way today to Broad Street. CBS sports analysts, Greg Anthony, Seth Davis, and Bill Raftery shot hoops and provided giveaways to the NYSE community in anticipation of the upcoming 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament. The day rallied high spirits in anticipation for what is sure to be an intense road to th...

Ah, it’s that time of year, according to this Trader Update. Spring. Ahead. 14:30 PM 03/12/2010 Calendar Update Daylight Savings Time: Spring Forward Reminder Reminder to our customers that Daylight Savings Time will become effective at 2:00am this Sunday, March 14, 2010. That’s true for the U.S., of course, but it should also be no...

Our CEO Duncan Niederauer will be delivering the keynote address at the Futures Industry Association’s annual conference today starting about 9:40 a.m. EST. The stated topic: “Global Derivatives: Innovation and Change.” No shortage of issues to talk about there! We’re webcasting the audio live from our home page at http://...

There’s been a lot of press coverage of the first phase of NYSE’s next-generation trading floor, and not to knock any of the video and photos, but I think you’ve really got to see the place in person to take it all in. Maybe we need an IMAX camera or something. But if you know someone who can bring you in for a look — even ...

In the video embedded above from this morning, NYSE Euronext Chief Operating Officer Larry Leibowitz and Meridien Equity Partners’ Senior Managing Partner Jonathan Corpina talk with CNBC’s Scott Wapner about the NYSE’s next-generation trading floor, the first piece of which is visible for the first time today. A couple/three ...

New short-selling rules…explained! (MarketBeat) NYSE talks to Chuck — about listing (Charles Schwab Corp.) We’re in the “Great Recession,” the Associated Press says (Bloomberg; hat tip: Talking Business News) Qatar exchange may start bond trading by September (Bloomberg) The NYSE Euronext quarterly earnings call, re-mi...

Among bell ringers, Shaun White represents the gold standard. From some of my colleagues in Media Relations: Today’s blustery weather rings in a timely close to an eventful week in New York. It started the end of last week: the Opening Bell with 2010 Westminster’s Best in Show Winner of the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Scot...

From Bob Moitoso, Senior Vice President, NYSE Technologies: Good afternoon,everyone: This week, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel entitled “Finding a Single Solution for Global Connectivity” at the TradeTech USA event in New York. Steven Pae from Morgan Stanley moderated the panel while my fellow panelists included Mohammad Ayach of Or...

Your humble blogger didn’t get to hear all of the NYSE Euronext earnings teleconference on 9 Feb., so to catch up I turned to the transcript and slides. In flipping through them it occurred to me that although the conference call is designed for the analysts who follow our stock, there’s a lot of good information here for our trading a...