He was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley (called him basically useless and indecisive) The discovery of his letter strained Spanish-American relations, which helped initiate the Spanish-American War.
Nasdaq was created by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) to enable investors to trade securities on a computerized, speedy and transparent system, and commenced operations on February 8, 1971.he term âNasdaqâ is also used to refer to the Nasdaq Composite, an index of more than 3,000 stocks listed on the Nasdaq exchange that includes the worldâs foremost technology and biotech giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Intel and Amgen. Next Up.
NASDAQâs New Market Categories; NASDAQ Becomes a National Securities Exchange. Effective July 3, 2006, the NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq) established the NASDAQ Global Select Market, a new market tier billed as having âthe highest listing standards in the world,â and renamed Nasdaqâs existing two market tiers.