Wall street (华尔街)

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Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood.Wall Street is also shorthand (or a metonym，代名词) for the "influential financial interests（金融界）" of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area. Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges remain headquartered on Wall Street and in the Financial District, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX（美国证交所）, NYMEX（纽约商品交易所）, and NYBOT（纽约期货交易所）.

华尔街位于纽约市曼哈顿区南部从百老汇路延伸到东河，全长不过三分之一英里，宽仅１１米。街道狭窄而短，从百老汇到东河仅有7个街区（blocks）。1792年荷兰殖民者为抵御英军侵犯而建筑一堵土墙，从东河(the East River)一直筑到哈德逊河(the Hudson River)，后沿墙形成了一条街，因而得名Wall Street。后拆除了围墙，但“华尔街”的名字却保留了下来。如今以“美国的金融中心”闻名于世。美国摩根(Morgan)财团、洛克菲勒(Rockefeller)石油大王和杜邦(E.I.du Pont de Nemours and Company)财团等开设的银行、保险、航运、铁路等公司的总部集中在这里。著名的纽约证券交易所(Stock Exchange)也在这里。

Map of Wall Street