Easdaq is throwing another 50 US-listed stocks into its dual-trading facility in an attempt to steal a further march on its competitors in the battle to become the one-stop shop for growth stocks.

The embattled exchange, which has had to delay the launch of its internet-enabled trading platform from this summer to early 2001, will begin trading in the 50 additional stocks from 5 September. Easdaq also lost Clive Pedder, its executive vice president of market development, to a private software company.