( AMEX)
stock exchange with the third highest volume of trading in the US. Located at 86 Trinity Place in downtown Manhattan. The bulk of trading on AMEX consists of index options (computer technology index, institutional index, major market index) and shares of small to medium-sized companies are predominant. Recently merged with Nasdaq
See: Curb . Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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The second-largest stock exchange in the United States. It trades mostly in small-to medium-sized companies. The New York Times Financial Glossary
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the second largest stock exchange in the US after the New York Stock Exchange. It is based in New York and deals mainly in option S and in shares of new and foreign companies:
• The warrants will be listed on the American Stock Exchange.
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American Stock Exchange UK US noun [S] (ABBREVIATION AMEX, amex) FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
► the second-largest stock exchange in the US, after the New York Stock Exchange, which deals with shares from new, smaller, and foreign companies. In 2008 it was bought by the NYSE Euronext and became the NYSE Amex Equities in 2009: »
The company's stock is publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange.
Financial and business terms. 2012.