National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, June 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the worldwide representative voice for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. 

In honor of the occasion, Steven A. Wechsler, NAREIT's President and CEO will ring the Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite — 4 Times Square — 43^rd & Broadway — Broadcast Studio

When:

Monday, June 11, 2012 — 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET      

Contact:

Ronald C. Kuykendall
(202) 739-9425
RKuykendall@nareit.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at:

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About National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts:

NAREIT^®, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts^®, is the worldwide representative voice for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets. NAREIT's members are REITs and other businesses throughout the world that own, operate, and finance income-producing real estate, as well as those firms and individuals who advise, study, and service those businesses.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to traffic more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily.  Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century.  To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500).

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