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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesSECURITIESStock Around The Clock
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- The New York Stock Exchange has not exactly stampeded toward
- a longer working day. In 1952 the Big Board extended the
- closing time 30 minutes, to 3:30 p.m., and in 1974 to 4 p.m.
- In 1985 the exchange moved the opening bell up 30 minutes, to
- 9:30 a.m. But exchanges in Europe and Japan trade N.Y.S.E.
- stocks when the Big Board is closed, typically handling an
- amount equivalent to 9% of the exchange's daily business. Now
- the Big Board is getting in gear. Last week chairman John Phelan
- unveiled a plan to move the N.Y.S.E. to 24-hour trading by the
- end of the decade. "There is some volume going overseas, and
- we'd like to capture some of that volume back," he said. The
- transition will begin later this year with 15- to 45-min.
- after-hours trading sessions that will be handled by computers.
- Next year the Big Board plans to have stock auctions at 8 p.m.,
- midnight and 5 a.m., with each stock trading at a single price.
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