The New York Stock Exchange history

The New York Stock Exchange history
The earliest recorded organization of securities trading in New York among brokers directly dealing with each other can be traced to the Buttonwood Agreement.

Previously, securities exchange had been intermediated by the auctioneers, who also conducted more mundane auctions of commodities such as wheat and tobacco.

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1908
On April 21, 2005, the NYSE announced its plans to merge with Archipelago in a deal intended to reorganize the NYSE as a publicly traded company.

NYSE´s governing board voted to merge with rival Archipelago on December 6, 2005, and became a for-profit, public company.

It began trading under the name NYSE Group on March 8, 2006.

On April 4, 2007, the NYSE Group completed its merger with Euronext, the European combined stock market, thus forming NYSE Euronext, the first transatlantic stock exchange.

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Wall Street is the leading U.S.

money center for international financial activities and the foremost U.S.

location for the conduct of wholesale financial services.

"It comprises a matrix of wholesale financial sectors, financial markets, financial institutions, and financial industry firms" (Robert, 2002).

The principal sectors are securities industry, commercial banking, asset management, and insurance.