Nasdaq In Talks With Gov. Abbott About Relocating Trading Systems to North Texas

[Budi]

First I've heard of this..


https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/nasdaq-in-talks-with-gov-abbott-about-relocating-trading-systems-to-north-texas/2456582/?amp

From DALLASNEWS.COM

Nasdaq In Talks With Gov. Abbott About Relocating Trading Systems to North Texas
Several other states are also said to be in talks to win the electronic infrastructure for Nasdaq and possibly other exchanges

Nasdaq Inc. is in talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott about potentially relocating the exchange’s electronic trading systems from New Jersey to Dallas-Fort Worth, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

Other trading exchanges also could be involved in the discussions, both sources said.

Abbott confirmed the talks with Nasdaq in a tweet after The News published this story online. “They want to flee high taxes,” he wrote. “I let them know that we just passed a constitutional amendme...

Link to tweet

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He's also hinting at opening bars again. 🤬
I hope he is defeated by a Democrat in 2022.

Texas gubernatorial election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Governor of Texas.
As Texas does not have gubernatorial term limits, incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott is running for re-election to a third term in office

[kimbutgar]

1. It will be interesting to see if those software professionals who run NASDAQ will move to Texas

[Budi]

2. Indeed. They'll miss NYC! 💙 NASDAQ sits in Times Square of all places!

Hard to tell if this is alot of pre re-election bluster considering Abbott's taken a pounding for his disastrous approach to COVID .

He'll always have his racist crazy cult tho.

[kimbutgar]

3. I worked on a Nasdaq trading desk in the 90's

When the New York traders would come out for our SF Security Traders convention They would fly out for our convention they were so proud being New Yorkers and cocky. Texas is kind of boring compared to Wall Street New York!

[Budi]

4. Lol. DFW is a nice place but no place on earth compares to Times Square NYC

Yup. It'll be a typical downtown big city high rise experience.

[Crowman2009]

5. That Dallas air is gonna make NYC smell like roses.

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. Come on down to Texas!!! Covididiot governor, highest electricity rates in the nation,

property taxes that will choke a rhino, highest rate of medically uninsured in the nation, public schools at or near the bottom because the guv and his cronies are trying to kill them...I could go on, but my thumbs are tired.

[Crowman2009]

7. Highest air pollution.

[ResistantAmerican17]

8. From more than 130 refineries and chemical plants along the cost from Padre Island to Beaumont.

You called it.