The golf company within Fortune, Acushnet has released the NXT range of golf balls to the growing second tier market.

In addition, the Canada China Business Council is contracted to provide services on behalf of the Trade Commissioner Service at its offices in four second tier markets in China:

Although a center of world power, Washington, from the vantage point of WPP, is a profitable second tier market, a city subordinate to the glitter and cash of New York, London, Paris and Buenos Aires.

Diego Perfumo, analyst at Equity Research Desk LLC, an advisory firm that specializes in exchanges, said Thursday's deal means NYSE Euronext is acquiring about 700 more stock listings in the second tier market.