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TORCH ENERGY ROYALTY TRUST (TRU)

Torch Energy Royalty Trust, a grantor trust, holds the net profits interests, to receive payments from Torch Royalty Company and Velasco Gas Company, Ltd. It consists of net profits interests in proved developed oil and gas properties located in Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana. The Trust was formed in 1993 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

NEWTEK BUSINESS SERVICES INC (NEWT)

Newtek Business Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a direct distributor of business services to the small and medium-sized business market in the United States. It offers electronic payment processing services, including credit card, debit card, and gift card processing, as well as check approval services directly to merchants; and Web hosting and related services, including Linux-based Web hosting, and Web-based data storage and back-up services. The company also specializes in making, servicing, and selling small business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration for the purpose of acquiring commercial real estate, machinery, equipment, and inventory; and to refinance debt, fund franchises, working capital, and business acquisitions. In addition, it provides small business insurance products and services, such as personal and commercial lines insurance products; and administrative and technological support for small businesses by designing and implementing specialized financial and management reporting systems, and by providing outsourced financial management functions, including digital bookkeeping. The company also provides tax filing, preparation, and advisory services to small- and medium-sized businesses; and business plan preparation services in connection with the formation or expansion of small and medium-sized businesses. Newtek Business Services has strategic alliance with Credit Union National Association, PSCU Financial Services, Inc., and AIG Small Business. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

ADMINISTRADORA DE FONDOS DE PENSIONES-PROVIDA SA (PVD)

Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. offers private pension fund administration and related services in the Republic of Chile. Its services include collection for individual capitalization accounts, voluntary savings accounts, voluntary pension savings, life and disability benefits, investment services, and accounts administration. The company also holds investments in private pension fund administrators operating in Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. As of June 30, 2005, it operated 134 branches. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile. Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. is a majority owned subsidiary of BBVA Pensiones Chile S.A.

MESA ROYALTY TRUST (MTR)

Mesa Royalty Trust holds royalty interests in oil and gas properties in the United States. It owns 90% net profits over-riding royalty interest in the oil and gas properties located in the Hugoton field of Kansas, the San Juan Basin field of New Mexico and Colorado, and the Yellow Creek field of Wyoming. The company was formed in 1979 and is based in Lavaca Austin, Texas.

ENERGY SERVICES OF AMERICA CORPORATION (ESA)

Energy Services Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. The company serves as a vehicle to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, or other similar business combination with an operating business. It focuses on acquiring an operating business in the energy services sector headquartered in North America. Energy Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Huntington, West Virginia.

EASTERN AMERICAN NATURAL GAS TRUST (NGT)

Eastern American Natural Gas Trust engages in acquiring and holding net profits interests in producing gas wells and proved development well locations. The trust holds net profits interests created from the working interests owned by Eastern American Energy Corporation in 650 producing gas wells and 65 proved development well locations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Eastern American Natural Gas Trust is based in Austin, Texas.

DOMINION RESOURCES BLACK WARRIOR TRUST (DOM)

Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust operates as the grantor trust in the United States. It acquires and holds certain overriding royalty interests burdening proved natural gas properties located in the Pottsville coal formation of the Black Warrior Basin, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. These properties comprise 34,212 gross acres of land in an area of approximately 5 miles wide and 23 miles long located on the Tuscaloosa to Bankhead Lake portion of the Black Warrior Basin. The royalty interests entitle the trust to receive 65% of the gross proceeds. As a grantor trust, Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust is not subject to federal income taxes. The trust was formed in 1994 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

CROSS TIMBERS ROYALTY TRUST (CRT)

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust holds net profits interests in certain royalty and overriding royalty interest properties in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. It holds 90% net profits interests in certain royalty and overriding royalty interests in producing properties in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; and 75% net profits interests in certain working interest properties, including oil-producing properties in Texas and Oklahoma. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust was created in 1991 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

COMMUNITY BANKERS TRUST CORPORATION (BTC)

Community Bankers Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. It intends to acquire an operating commercial bank or commercial bank holding company in the United States. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Great Falls, Virginia.

CLARK HOLDINGS INC (GLA)

Global Logistics Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. It intends to acquire, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, or other similar business combination, one or more operating businesses in the transportation and logistics sector, and related industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.

SABINE ROYALTY TRUST (SBR)

Sabine Royalty Trust (trust) operates as a trust for Sabine Corporation. The trust receives royalty and mineral interests, including landowner's royalties, overriding royalty interests, minerals, production payments, and other similar, nonparticipatory interest, in certain producing and proved undeveloped oil and gas properties located in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. It collects income from the trust properties and distributes available income to Unit holders after paying all expenses, and charges and obligations. Sabine Royalty Trust was established in 1982 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

CHINA HYDROELECTRIC CORPORATION AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARE (EACH REPRESENTING THREE ORDINARY SHARES) (CHC)

CharterMac, through its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate finance company. It provides capital solutions to developers and owners of properties, as well as investment products to institutional and retail investors. The company operates in three segments: Portfolio Investing, Fund Management, and Mortgage Banking. The Portfolio Investing segment invests primarily in tax-exempt first mortgage revenue bonds issued by various state or local governments, agencies, or authorities, and other investments designed to produce federally tax-exempt income. The Fund Management segment sponsors real estate equity investment funds that primarily invest in low-income housing tax credit properties (LIHTC), and provides advisory services to an affiliated real estate investment trust, as well as participates in credit enhancement transactions. The Mortgage Banking segment originates and services primarily multifamily mortgage loans on behalf of third parties. In addition, the company sponsors the LIHTC equity funds through Fund Management segment. CharterMac is based in New York City.

TEXAS PACIFIC LAND TRUST (TPL)

Texas Pacific Land Trust engages in the sale, lease and management of land. It also retains oil and gas royalties and temporary cash investments. As of December 31, 2004, the company owned the surface estate in 992,673 acres of land located in 20 counties in Texas; a 1/128 nonparticipating perpetual oil and gas royalty interest under 85,414 acres of land; and a 1/16 nonparticipating perpetual oil and gas royalty interest under 386,988 acres of land in the western part of Texas. Texas Pacific was organized in 1888 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

INFORMATION SERVICES GROUP INC - INFORMATION SERVICES GROUP INC (III)

Information Services Group, Inc. does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset or stock acquisition, or other similar business combination with one or more operating businesses in the information services industry, including business, media, marketing, and consumer information businesses. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

DORCHESTER MINERALS LP - COMMON UNITS REPRESENTING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS (DMLP)

Dorchester Minerals, L.P. engages in the ownership and operation of producing and nonproducing oil and natural gas properties located in Kansas and Oklahoma. It also acquires, produces, and administers royalty, overriding royalty, net profits, and leasehold interests. The company owns royalty properties in 585 counties and parishes in 25 states. As of December 31, 2004, 17 wells had been completed as producing oil or natural gas wells, 3 were deemed to be dry holes, and 5 were in various stages of drilling or completion operations. The company's total proved gas and oil reserves were 583 million cubic feet and 2 million barrels respectively, attributable to the royalty properties, as of the above date. Dorchester Minerals Management LP serves as the general partner of the company. The company is based in Dallas, Texas.

SAFEGUARD SCIENTIFICS INC NEW (SFE)

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. engages in the ownership and operation of various companies primarily in the information technology (IT) and life sciences industries. It provides counseling, capital and financial support, guidance and operating discipline, and access to industry knowledge. The company offers a range of operational and management assistance to each of its companies. Safeguard Scientifics provides mentoring, advice, and guidance to develop the management of the companies. The company, through its subsidiaries, offers software solutions that enable corporate performance management through the delivery of business intelligence and data management, custom application development and outsourcing, packaged software integration, and consulting services; cancer diagnostic services, imaging systems, and bioanalytical services to the biopharmaceutical companies and other research organizations to assist them from drug discovery through clinical trials to the development of directed diagnostics; integrated compliance analytic applications for the financial services and telecommunications markets, as well as revenue assurance and fraud detection software for telecommunications service providers; post-production digital and photo-chemical services to the motion picture and television industry; and bioprocessing services, drug delivery services, and quality control and quality assurance services. Safeguard Scientifics was incorporated in 1953 and is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

HUGOTON ROYALTY TRUST (HGT)

Hugoton Royalty Trust, an express trust, engages in the ownership of oil and natural gas producing properties in Hugoton Area, Anadarko Basin, and Green River Basin in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming states in the United States. As of December 31, 2004, its estimated proved gas reserves were 443,933 Mcf and estimated proved oil reserves were 3,793 Bbls. The trust was founded in 1998 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

SAN JUAN BASIN ROYALTY TRUST (SJT)

San Juan Basin Royalty Trust operates as an express royalty trust. The trust has 75% net overriding royalty interest carved out of Burlington Resources Oil& Gas Company LP's oil and gas leasehold and royalty interests in properties located in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. It has working interests, royalty interests, overriding royalty interests, and other contractual rights in 151,900gross producing acres in San Juan, Rio Arriba, and Sandoval Counties of northwestern New Mexico and 4,223 gross economic wells, including dual completions. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust was founded in 1980 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

HOME BANCSHARES INC (HOMB)

Home Bancshares, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial and retail banking, and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals, and municipalities in central and north central Arkansas, the Florida Keys, and southwestern Florida. Its deposit services include checking, savings, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company offers loan products, such as commercial and residential real estate, residential construction, consumer, commercial and industrial, and agricultural loans. It also offers a range of products and services, including Internet banking and voice response information, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, traveler's checks, safe deposit boxes, United States savings bonds, and automatic account transfers. In addition, the company provides trust services, focusing primarily on personal trusts, corporate trusts, and employee benefit trusts. As of December 31, 2006, it operated 40 branches in Arkansas, 7 branches in the Florida Keys, and 3 branches in southwestern Florida. Home Bancshares is headquartered in Conway, Arkansas.

UNITED FINANCIAL BANCORP INC (UBNK)

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for United Bank that offers financial products and services. It offers various deposit products, including demand accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. The bank originates first mortgage loans for the purchase and refinancing of one- to four-family residential real property. It also offers mortgage real estate, home equity loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, and automobile loans. In addition, the bank originates other consumer loans, including secured and unsecured personal loans, manufactured home, motorcycle and motor home loans, boat loans, and pool and spa loans. Further, it provides a range of non-deposit investment products and financial planning services, including mutual funds; debt, equity, and government securities; insurance products; fixed and variable annuities; financial planning for individual and commercial customers; and estate planning services. As of April 20, 2007, the bank operated 13 branch offices in western Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in West Springfield, Massachusetts. United Financial Bancorp, Inc. is a subsidiary of United Mutual Holding Company.

COMPASS DIVERSIFIED HOLDINGS - SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST (CODI)

Compass Diversified Trust is an investment trust managed by The Compass Group LLC. It specializes in acquiring controlling stakes in its portfolio companies. The trust prefers to invest in companies based in the United States. It seeks to invest in companies having a minimum EBITDA of $5 million.

VIEWPOINT FINANCIAL GROUP INC (VPFG)

ViewPoint Financial Group operates as the holding company for Viewpoint Bank, which provides financial services in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The bank's deposit products include checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposits, term certificate accounts, and demand accounts. Its lending products consist of one- to four-family residential mortgage loans; home improvement loans; construction mortgage loans; commercial real estate loans; home equity loans; consumer loans, including new and used automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, student loans, and loans secured by savings deposits; and commercial business loans. The bank also offers brokerage services for the purchase and sale of non-deposit investment and insurance products through a third party brokerage arrangement. As of December 31, 2006, it had 34 branches, including 16 in-store locations and 3 loan production offices. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

PERMIAN BASIN ROYALTY TRUST (PBT)

Permian Basin Royalty Trust, a grantor trust, holds overriding royalty rights in mineral properties in the United States. The trust holds a 75% net overriding royalty interest in Waddell Ranch Properties in Texas; and a 95% net overriding royalty interest in Texas Royalty Properties in Texas. The trust was established in 1980 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

FUSHI COPPERWELD INC (FSIN)

Fushi Copperweld, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of bimetallic composite wire products, principally copper clad aluminum wires and copper clad steel wires. Its copper clad aluminum wires are used in various applications, such as coaxial cable for cable television, signal transmission lines for telecommunication networks, distribution lines for electricity, wire components for electronic instruments and devices, utilities wire, building wire and other industrial wires, and various video and data applications. The company also produces bimetallic composite wire products through its proprietary ‘rolling bond welding' manufacturing technology, as well as involves in strand producing business. Fushi Copperweld offers its products primarily in China through its direct sales force; and internationally through sales agents and distributors. The company was incorporated in 2005. It was formerly known as Fushi International, Inc. and changed its name to Fushi Copperweld, Inc. in January 2008. Fushi Copperweld is based in Dalian, China.

CME GROUP INC - CLASS A (CME)

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings, Inc. (CME Holdings) operates as a futures exchange in the United States for the trading of futures and options on futures. It offers trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts on interest rates; equity indexes; foreign exchange; and commodities, including cattle, hogs, pork bellies, lumber, weather, and dairy products. These products provide a means for hedging, speculation, and asset allocation relating to the risks associated with interest rate sensitive instruments, equity ownership, changes in the value of foreign currency, and changes in the prices of commodity products. The company offers E-mini versions of its open outcry-traded futures contracts, E-mini S&P 500, E-mini NASDAQ-100, E-mini Russell 1000, E-mini Russell 2000, E-mini S&P MidCap 400, and E-mini NASDAQ Composite. In addition, CME Holdings sells its market data, which includes information about bids, offers, trades, and trade size to banks, broker-dealers, pension funds, investment companies, mutual funds, insurance companies, individual investors, and other financial services companies or organizations. Further, the company owns and operates clearing house that clears, settles, and guarantees the performance of various transactions matched through its execution facilities; as well as provides various services, including transaction processing and position management, cross-margining and mutual offset services, market protection, and risk management; settlement, collateral, and delivery services; and investment services. CME Holdings' customers include professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, supranational entities, and governments. The company was organized in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ADVANTAGE OIL & GAS LTD ORDINARY SHARES (AAV)

Advantage Energy Income Fund operates as an open-ended unincorporated mutual fund trust in Canada. The fund, through its subsidiary, Advantage Oil & Gas, Ltd., engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, and crude oil and natural gas liquids. Advantage Investment Management, Ltd. serves as the manager of the fund. Advantage Energy Income Fund was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION (WAL)

Western Alliance Bancorporation operates as a holding company for Bank of Nevada, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Torrey Pines Bank, and Alta Alliance Bank that provide various banking and related services in Nevada, Arizona, and California, the United States. It offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and other deposit accounts, including fixed-rate, fixed maturity retail certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and non-retail certificates of deposit, as well as non-interest bearing deposits. The bank provides various loans, including commercial and residential real estate, construction and land development, commercial, and consumer loans. The principal types of construction loans include industrial/warehouse properties, office buildings, retail centers, medical facilities, restaurants, and single-family homes. Its commercial and industrial loans comprise working capital lines of credit, inventory and accounts receivable lines, equipment loans, and other commercial loans. The bank also originates residential mortgage loans secured by one-to four-family properties. Its consumer loan portfolio comprises home equity loans and lines of credit, home improvement loans, credit card loans, new and used automobile loans, and personal lines of credit. Western Alliance Bancorporation, through its nonbanking subsidiaries, provides cash management, trust administration and estate planning, equipment leasing, and custody and investment services. It provides its services to locally owned businesses, professional firms, real estate developers and investors, local non-profit organizations, high net worth individuals, and other consumers. As of December 31, 2006, the bank operated 31 branch offices. Western Alliance Bancorporation is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

COVANTA HOLDING CORPORATION (CVA)

Covanta Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides waste and energy services in the United States. It develops, owns, and operates infrastructure for the conversion of energy-from-waste, waste disposal, and renewable energy production. The company also engages in independent power production business. As of December 31, 2006, it owned and operated approximately 51 energy generation facilities, which uses municipal solid waste, water, natural gas, coal, wood waste, landfill gas, and heavy fuel-oil. In addition, Covanta Holding Corporation owns and operates a waste procurement business, landfills, and waste transfer stations, as well as a water treatment facility. Further, the company has investments in insurance operations primarily in property and casualty insurance, as well as writes nonstandard private automobile insurance policies. It also operates in the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Costa Rica, Italy, and the People's Republic of China. The company, formerly known as Danielson Holding Corporation, was founded in 1960. Covanta Holding Corporation is headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey.

LIFE PARTNERS HOLDINGS INC (LPHI)

Life Partners Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, Life Partners, Inc., engages in facilitating viatical and life settlement transfers. The company's viatical and life settlements include the purchase of the life insurance policies of terminally ill persons or elderly persons at a discount to their face value. It matches viators or life settlers with purchasers, and facilitate transactions by identifying, examining, and purchasing the policies as agent for the purchasers. The purchasers of viatical settlements are high net worth individuals or small institutional purchasers, and that of life policies are generally institutional purchasers. Life Partners Holdings was founded in 1971 and is based in Waco, Texas.

BAYTEX ENERGY TRUST TRUST UNIT (BTE)

Baytex Energy Trust operates as an open-end unincorporated investment trust. The company, through its subsidiary, Baytex Energy, Ltd., engages in the exploitation, acquisition, development, and production of oil and natural gas in Canada. Its property portfolio comprise Ardmore, Cold Lake, Seal, Bon Accord, Darwin/Nina, Leahurst, Richdale/Sedalia, Red Earth/Goodfish, and Turin properties located in Alberta; Carruthers, Celtic, Marsden/Epping/Macklin/Silverdale, and Tangleflags properties located in Saskatchewan; and Stoddart property located in British Columbia. The company also owns interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and related assets located primarily in the Pembina and Lindbergh areas of Alberta. As of December 31, 2006, Baytex Energy Trust had proved and probable reserves of approximately 6,600.2 Mbbl of light and medium crude oil; 96,109 Mbbl of heavy oil; 121.4 Bcf of natural gas; and 3727.0 Mbbl of natural gas liquids. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

MESABI TRUST (MSB)

Mesabi Trust, a grantor trust, holds overriding royalty rights in mineral properties in the United States. The trust holds interests in certain properties in the Mesabi Iron Range, including its interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease, which cover properties aggregating approximately 9,750 contiguous acres in St. Louis County, Minnesota. It also holds beneficial interests in Mesabi Land Trust, which has a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands, as well as a 100% fee ownership in certain nonmineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands. The Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands are located at the eastern end of the Mesabi Iron Range and contain low-grade iron ore, known as taconite. Mesabi Trust was formed in 1919 and is based in New York City.

THE NASDAQ OMX GROUP INC (NDAQ)

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (Nasdaq) provides securities listing, trading, and information products and services. It operates through two segments, Issuer Services and Market Services. The Issuer Services segment includes corporate client group, which offers customer support services and products to Nasdaq-listed companies and is responsible for obtaining new listings on Nasdaq. This segment also consists of financial products group that develops and licenses Nasdaq-branded financial products and associated derivatives. The Market Services segment provides transaction-based services and market information services. The company's transaction-based platform offers market participants with the ability to access, process, display, and integrate orders and quotes; and allows routing and execution of buy and sell orders, as well as report transactions for Nasdaq-listed securities and those listed on national stock exchanges. Its market information services include providing varying levels of quote and trade information to market participants and to data vendors. In addition, Nasdaq offers insurance brokerage services and specializes in the directors and officers' liability insurance market; and operates OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic screen-based market for equity securities that are not listed on Nasdaq or any primary U.S. national securities exchange. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in New York City. The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., as of December 31, 2004.

PROVIDENT ENERGY TRUST ORDINARY SHARES (PVX)

Provident Energy Trust, through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration for and the production of petroleum and natural gas in Canada and the United States. Its properties are principally located in west central Alberta, Lloydminster, southern Alberta, southwest and southeast Saskatchewan, California, and Wyoming. The trust also engages in the fractionation, transportation, loading, and storage of natural gas liquids, as well as marketing of crude oil and natural gas liquids. As of December 31, 2004, it had total gross proved reserves of 62,680 thousand barrels (Mbbl) of light and medium oil; 11,115 Mbbl of heavy oil; 172,837 million cubic feet of natural gas; and 3,843 Mbbl of natural gas liquids. Provident Energy was founded in 1993 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

PENN WEST ENERGY TRUST ORDINARY SHARE TRUST UNIT (CANADA) (PWE)

Penn West Energy Trust operates as an open-ended, unincorporated investment trust in Canada. The trust, through its subsidiaries, engages in acquiring, developing, exploiting, and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets. Its oil and gas properties are located in the western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and within the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. As of December 31, 2006, it had proved plus probable gross reserves of 482,560 million barrels of oil equivalent; and had working interests in 20,480 oil and gas wells. Penn West Energy Trust was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

NYSE EURONEXT (NYX)

NYSE Euronext, the holding company for NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., operates an exchange group and offers a diverse array of financial products and services. It brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges offering listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds, and distribution of market data. NYSE Group operates two securities exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange LLC (NYSE) and NYSE Arca, Inc. It provides securities listing, trading, and market data products and services. The NYSE is an equities exchange and provides an orderly, liquid marketplace where investors buy and sell listed companies' common stock and other securities. NYSE Arca, an all-electronic stock exchange in the United States, engages in trading exchange-traded funds and exchange-listed securities, as well as equity options. Euronext N.V. is a cross-border exchange providing international services for regulated cash markets and derivative markets in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The company was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in New York, New York.