Viacom To Move Listing To Nasdaq

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Fri, 11/11/2011 - 1:36pm

Viacom said it is voluntarily transferring its stock-exchange listing to the Nasdaq Global Market, from the New York Stock Exchange, as Nasdaq successfully lured away one of the biggest media companies from the Big Board.

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