American Stock Exchange NASDAQ celebrated the 66th Indian Independence Day by flashing Indian Tri-color  in the exchange  on  the Bill board at Times Square.
Indian Consul General to United States Prabhu Dayal rang the opening bell at 9.30 a.m on 15th August local time. The Billboard flashed Tri-colour with a message  “Nasdaq celebrates India’s Independence Day”. Other billboards across Times Square too displayed images of the tricolour.
NASDAQ is world’s Second  largest Stock Exchange. “NASDAQ has organised this event to celebrate India’s Independence Day, which indicated the ever growing relationship between NASDAQ and Indian companies,” said Dayal at the ceremony watched by a large number of members of the Indian community.
“NASDAQ’s gesture is in recognition of the fact that India has become a global powerhouse,” he said, calling on the exchange to encourage foreign firms to invest in India’s growing infrastructure sector.
He was confident that NASDAQ would continue to focus the interest of investors on the opportunities provided by India and play a positive role in the growth of the Indian economy.
Indian companies like Infosys, Cognizant, Rediff, Makemytrip and Sify are members of the NASDAQ 100 index which is one of the most prestigious and widely followed indices of the world.