• Posted March 8, 2013 12:01 a.m.
  • The New York Stock Exchange
  • March 8, 1817

    The New York Stock Exchange

    In 1792, 24 stockbrokers signed an agreement under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. On March 8, 1817, the group drafted a constitution and became the New York Stock & Exchange Board. Their first president was Anthony Stockholm.

    http://www.nyx.com/who-we-are/history/new-york

     

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