Financial Management

You have been asked to write a report for a group of new stock brokers about the NYSE-Euronext and the NASDAQ.

Visit both the NYSE Homepage, and the NASDAQ Homepage, and write a paper of 2–3 pages on how the two exchanges operate. Make sure to address the following three questions:

• How are NYSE and NASDAQ similar, if at all?
• 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.

You may first want to create an outline to determine the information you want to include before you actually start writing the report.

Assignment Guidelines:

• Using the links in the assignment description, research the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ).
• Answer the 3 questions listed in the assignment description.
• Compile your answers into a Word document of 2–3 pages.
• Provide a list in APA format of all sources used and insert any necessary in-text quotations.

Your submitted assignment (125 points) must include the following:

• A double-spaced Word document of 2–3 pages that contains your answers to the questions listed in the assignment description.
• An additional reference page in APA format.