NYSE Euronext and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Commemorate Earth Day with Inaugural Green Summit at the New York Stock Exchange

--Thought leaders discuss and exchange ideas on environmental sustainability and
corporate responsibility--
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
NYSE Euronext and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute today hosted the
inaugural Green Summit at the New York Stock Exchange in conjunction with the
40th anniversary of Earth Day. The event featured leaders from the Environmental
Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and the corporate and academic sectors
who explored ways to attain environmental sustainability while growing business
and the economy through green business. A re-play of the webcast of the Green
Summit is available at
http://www.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/NYSE20100422.

Additionally, several NYSE-listed companies participated in the Green Summit and
showcased their "green" technologies inside and outside the New York Stock
Exchange:

* United Parcel Service, Inc./hybrid electric package delivery car (NYSE: UPS)
* Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F)/electric and hybrid vehicles
* Hewlett Packard Co./climate wall (NYSE: HPQ)
* Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM)/reversible vending machines

"Today`s Green Summit at the NYSE marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day was
a great success," said Duncan Niederauer, CEO, NYSE Euronext. "Together with the
Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and several of our listed companies,
we were able to bring together some of the country`s most insightful minds to
exchange ideas and expertise on how to grow businesses, communities and the
economy while being eco-friendly. The Green Summit and all Earth Day events
globally serve as a great reminder of the need to address the issues that impact
our planet and the opportunities to make our world even better in the future."

"Yale is delighted to join forces with the NYSE Euronext to unify the cutting
edge work from academia with the pioneering triumphs of industry," said Yale
Senior Associate Dean and conference organizer Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. "This forum
brought together Nobel Prize winning prominence, scientific expertise, policy
innovation, inspiring corporate initiatives for a celebration of how far the
spirit of Earth Day has come these past forty years. Rather than finger-pointing
between institutions and communities, we now see hands locked in mutual progress
towards common objectives."

The Green Summit was co-sponsored by Deloitte; The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:
DOW); Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ); PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP); Office Depot (NYSE:
ODP); United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS); The Mother Nature Network; Sesame
Workshop; The Body Shop and CNBC.

In celebration of Earth Day`s 40th anniversary, co-sponsors of the Green Summit
rang The Opening Bell; the Closing Bell was rung by Matt Petersen, President and
CEO of Global Green USA, the American affiliate of President Gorbachev's, Green
Cross international joined by actor Anthony Mackie, who recently starred in the
Oscar-winning movie, The Hurt Locker and arctic explorer and photographer
Sebastian Copeland.

The NYSE and Yale Green Summit offered an opportunity for NYSE-listed issuers
and others to come together to garner unique insights and further their "green"
initiatives. The summit underscored NYSE Euronext`s commitment to creating
thought leadership forums where our community of executives can exchange
innovative ideas and network.

NYSE Euronext was recently recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of the
Greenest Big Companies in America. In the September 21, 2009 issue, NYSE
Euronext ranked #177 out of 500 companies rated and was the only stock exchange
to make the list.

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and
provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe
and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and
exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding
European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York
Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca -
represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any
global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the
leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest
derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive
commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services
through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the
only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more
information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

About the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute

The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute was founded in 1989 to provide
original research on top leadership and lively, current educational forums
through peer-driven learning for accomplished leaders across a range of sectors.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ceoleadership.org/.

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