NYWCT \|/ Wall Street

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- - - - - - - - Sitemap - - - - - - - -	*Wall Street* Wall Street is the financial district of New York City. It is also the name of the street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River. Over time Wall Street came to signify a geographic location encompassing a commercial downtown Manhattan neighborhood as well as signifying the historical financial center of the United States. The term has become a metonym signifying New York-based financial interests. It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies.Anchored by Wall Street, New York City is one of the principal financial centers of the world. Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges have headquarters on Wall Street and in the Financial District, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, and NYBOT. Wall Street is important in a nation such as the United States in which former president Calvin Coolidge once remarked "The business of America is business" and in which rising stock markets are called bulls and falling markets are called bears. Lower Manhattan was the first area in the city to be settled by Europeans, in 1623, according to one account. Dutch settlers had houses, farms, and a few stores in this growing New World port. One Dutch farmer named Annotkje Janz had a farm in lower Manhattan and is buried in Trinity Church, and the last Dutch mayor Peter Stuyvesant ran New Amsterdam until 1664, when it was ceded to Britain and had its name changed to New York. There are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named "de Waal Straat" got its name. A generally accepted version is that the name of the street name was derived from an earthen wall on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement, perhaps to protect against English colonial encroachment or incursions by native Americans. A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street was named after Walloons -- possibly a Dutch abbreviation for Walloon being Waal. Among the first settlers that embarked on the ship "Nieu Nederlandt" in 1624 were 30 Walloon families.	Battery Park Wall Street Trinity Church South Street Seaport Time Square Grand Central Empire State