Formerly known as The Stock Exchange of Newcastle
Limited (NSX), the NSX was officially opened for business in March 2000 by The Hon Joe
Hockey MP, the then Federal Minister for Financial Services and Regulation.
On 21st December 2006 NSX changed its name to National Stock Exchange of
Australia Limited.
NSX provides an efficient mechanism to mobilise growth capital for innovative and
growing businesses as well as those segments of the economy requiring tradeable
securities.
If you are involved in a growing
business either as a principal or as a company adviser then you should keep up
to date with the Australia’s second official stock exchange.
The NSX provides specialist listings in certain investments sectors, just as the
Alternative Investment Market in Great Britain and the NASDAQ in the United
States of America, supplement listings in the major markets and attract emerging
new businesses.
Founded in 1937, incorporated in 1972,
reactivated under Corporations Law as the NSX in 2000 and is fully regulated by
ASIC.
In its former trading days, the NSX
was the home exchange up to 300 companies. Many of these were
local and regional businesses that went on to become significant Australian
companies. Among these were Brambles Industries Limited, Coal and Allied
Industries Ltd, NBN Ltd, New Redhead Estate and Coal Company Ltd, Newcastle Gas
Company Ltd and Steggles Holdings Ltd.
Below, are a set of links which lead
to several articles that have been written about the NSX
over the years.
The first to
be made available start from the NSX's
inception in 1937.
The articles are
in the form of images from original documents such as newspaper clippings. If you click on the thumbnail of an
interesting image it will be made bigger for easier reading.
The NSX is a publicly listed company with a strong
national network of member brokers and corporate advisers.
The NSX
operates a state of the art trading solution provided by NASDAQ OMX. All securities listed on the NSX
are fully transferable electronically and registered with CHESS. Settlement for all trading
is T+3, which is a globally agreed standard.
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