The New York Stock Exchange

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The New York Stock Exchange was born in 1817. It is situate in the south top of Manhattan, in New York. The main street is obviously calling Wall Street, a street which is built by the Dutch settlers in order to protect them against the Indian and English attacks.
It is today the main worldwide Stock Exchange place where the biggest sum of money is sharing. Unfortunately, after several events, everybody found out that the worldwide economy depend, a little bit, of the New York Stock Exchange quotation.
So what is really Wall Street?
In the first part, it seems to be primordial to develop the history of this emblematic place. In a second part, we will raise the two main institutions activities which are the NASDAQ and the Dow Jones. And finally, we will show the results of a New York Stock Exchange crisis in planetary scale.

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In 1653, the Dutch settlers who was install in the south top of Manhattan (in this period: New Amsterdam), constructed a big and large wall to protect themselves to the Indian and English attack. That’s why this place is named now “Wall Street”.
The first stock exchange was not in Wall Street (New York), but in Philadelphia in 1790. The New York Stock Exchange was born by the Buttonwood Agreement, in 1792. By this agreement, the main merchants of New York who signed this one (which aims to make order in the Wild Trade) engage themselves to exchange stock (titres) just between them and to determinate together the fixed amount of their commissions.
That’s finally, in 1817 the New York Stock & Exchange Board appeared in Manhattan. So, 44 years later, broke out in New York (in United States of America generally), the civil war between 1861 and 1865 (the secession war). During all this bloody period, the American government demanded to Wall Street to finance this war.
During this long period, there was a lot of little event like the Wall Street Journal creation in 1889. In 1896,