Wall Street

Wall Street, site of major United States stock exchanges and financial institutions, located in the lower Manhattan area of New York City. The term Wall Street has come to be synonymous with United States financial interests.

For information on:

• stocks and securities, see Stock Exchange; Stock (business); Investment Banking; Mutual Fund
• the Wall Street Journal, see Newspaper: Daily Newspapers; Clarence Walker Barron; Susan Faludi
• stock market crashes, see Black Monday; Herbert Clark Hoover: Great Depression; New Deal: Background; Financial Panic; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Stock Market Crash
• insider trading, see Ivan Frederick Boesky
• speculation, see Short Selling
• prominent people associated with Wall Street, see Nicholas Frederick Brady; Warren Edward Buffett; Edward H. Harriman; James Jerome Hill
• supervision of financial markets, see Federal Reserve System; Securities and Exchange Commission
• Wall Street as a New York landmark, see Manhattan (New York): Urban Landscape; New York City: Dutch Rule
• importance to the local economy, see New York City: Economy