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Exchanges
A "national securities exchange" is a securities exchange that has registered with the SEC under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
There are currently sixteen securities exchanges registered with the SEC under Section 6(a) of the Exchange Act as national securities exchanges:
- NYSE MKT LLC (formerly NYSE AMEX and the American Stock Exchange)
- BATS Exchange, Inc.
- BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.
- BOX Options Exchange LLC
- NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. (formerly the Boston Stock Exchange)
- C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated
- Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated
- Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
- EDGA Exchange, Inc.
- EDGX Exchange, Inc.
- International Securities Exchange, LLC
- The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
- National Stock Exchange, Inc.
- New York Stock Exchange LLC
- NYSE Arca, Inc.
- NASDAQ OMX PHLX, Inc. (formerly Philadelphia Stock Exchange)
Certain exchanges are also registered with the SEC through a notice filing under Section 6(g) of the Exchange Act for the purpose of trading security futures.
There are also two exchanges that the SEC has exempted from registration as national securities exchanges on the basis of a limited volume of transactions:
Recently Approved Exchange Applications
Additional Information
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrexchanges.shtml
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