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NYSE Group, Inc., a holding company, is a multi-asset financial marketplace that operates multiple securities market centers, including the NYSE and NYSE Arca (formerly known as the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and the Pacific Exchange). NYSE Group offers liquid venues for securities listing, advanced market information products and services, and platforms for the trading of listed equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs), fixed income products, options and other derivative products. The NYSE, an equities market, provides customer choice of floor-based trading of its listed issues by specialists and brokers or sub-second electronic order execution. On an average day, over 1.8 billion shares valued at over $69 billion trade on the NYSE. NYSE Arca, an open, all-electronic stock market, enables customers to trade over 8,000 equity securities, as well as over 175,000 option products. NYSE Regulation, Inc. provides market oversight consistent with NYSE Group's self-regulatory obligations.