Yerevan/Mediamax/. Closure of European platform of NASDAQ will not influence the activity of the Exchange operator in Armenia, Spokeswoman of “NASDAQ OMX Armenia” Ruzanna Sargsian informed Mediamax in an interview today.

According to her, the activity of NASDAQ OMX Europe (NEURO), which supervises the European trade platform of NASDAQ OMX Group, is not related to “NASDAQ OMX Armenia” and its closure, planned for May 21, 2010, will not lead to changes in the work of the Armenian Exchange.

NASDAQ OMX Group’s decision to close NEURO is related to post-crisis difficulties and the intensified competition among European exchange operators. Only 1% of trades on European “blue chips” on average fell on the share of NEURO. Closing the European platform, NASDAQ OMX Group preserves its assets in Scandinavia, London, the Baltic and Armenia.

On January 7, 2008, the Swedish OMX AB operator became the owner of 100% shares’ package of the Armenian Stock Exchange and the Central Depository of Armenia (CDA). After the merger of the Swedish Exchange operator with American NASDAQ in early 2008, the Armenian Stock Exchange became a part of the largest Exchange Company in the world – NASDAQ OMX.