| |
| | What is Wall Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Wall Street is a short, narrow street in lower Manhattan that extends from Broadway to the East River; symbolically, the term Wall Street stands for the U.S. financial world because of many of the nation's stock-brokerage companies, banks, and commodity exchanges are located either on the street or in the immediate neighborhood. |
 | | Wall Street landmarks include Trinity Church (1846), the New York Stock Exchange Building, the House of Morgan, and the old U.S. Sub-Treasury Building, on the site of which George Washington was inaugurated (1789) as first president of the United States. |
 | | Wall Street has become increasingly synonymous with U.S. capitalism, and organizations located on or near it influence and control innumerable enterprises throughout the United States and abroad. |
| www.geocities.com /WallStreet/Bureau/1729/wall_street.html (340 words) |
|