Exhibit 99.2
July 25, 2012
NASDAQ OMX announces quarterly dividend of $0.13 per share
New York, N.Y.—The Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.13 per share on the company’s outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on September 28, 2012 to shareowners of record at the close of business on September 14, 2012. Future declarations of quarterly dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to approval by the Finance Committee or the Board of Directors.
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About NASDAQ OMX Group
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 U.S. 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 process 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 $6 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, visitwww.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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