NASDAQ is an electronic stock exchange, located primarily in New York City. Once only small companies’ shares got traded there, and it was considered only a little brother of the New York Stock Exchange. But once NASDAQ companies like Apple and Microsoft got big, the NASDAQ exchange became one of the most important financial marketplaces in the world.
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