Introducing 'NYX Aggregator' (unless you have a better name to suggest)

By: Ray Pellecchia

File Under: Listed Companies, NYSE, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Technologies

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Starting today, I'm trying something new: NYX Aggregator, a weekly summary of news from or about NYSE Euronext and its various markets, products, and services. Items from here, there and everywhere, filtered through the glass onion of yours truly, and I think that's enough Beatles references for one sentence. But hey, cut me some slack -- today is John Lennon's birthday.

We'll continue to post individual items when we have something substantive to say, but hopefully the summary will help fill what I think is a yawning gap in the blog's coverage. To explain: The company is generating a firehose flow of information, and I've been trying to catch it in a paper cup. A merry band of bloggers is growing in number among my colleagues in their respective areas, but still there are businesses and geographic regions unspoken for. So I'm hoping NYX Aggregator will offer you a better glimpse of what's happening at the company as a whole.

So here goes:

The initial public offering of Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. lists on NYSE and raises $7 billion, making it the largest IPO ever conducted by a Brazilian company. Bem-vindo! (I hope that Portuguese for "welcome!")

Another important listing: Juniper Networks is moving to NYSE from Nasdaq, reports the Associated Press. And Reuters. And -- I won't keep listing others, but can you tell I'm more than a little happy about this?

CNBC, Securities Industry News and the Wall Street Journal all report on the remaking of the NYSE trading floor, blogged here. Have to admit, when I saw the Journal's headline, "Extreme Makeover: Big Board Edition," I thought someone had leaked word of my impending nose job.

Colin Clark finds that the volume traded by NYSE designated market makers, floor brokers and supplemental liquidity providers has nearly doubled in 11 months.

Two of the disciplinary actions announced by NYSE Regulation this week involve orders at the close, and one involves odd-lot orders -- two of the many topics I know are of interest to the traders and regulators out there.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange launches its Tdex+ system for trading options, with lower latency and bigger capacity powered by our LIFFE CONNECT® technology. (You had to know I was going to throw an ® somewhere in this piece.)

Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT) takes our FastPath process to cross-list on our Paris market, making it the fifth NYSE-listed company to take advantage of the streamlined, cost-effective Fast Path process since it became available last year.

Corporate responsibility is not an oxymoron -- it's part of our DNA, says my colleague Walt Lukken, senior VP of Market Structure.

And that wraps up this maiden voyage. Please let me know what you think -- is this kind of thing helpful? How about readable? Just gimme some truth. And if you can think of a better standing headline, I'd love to hear it. It's up to you -- yeah, you!

Today in NYSE History
09 Oct. 1953 -- Volume of only 900,000 shares marked the last time the NYSE traded less than a million shares a day.