华尔街 介绍(英文).pptVIP

华 尔 街 Wall Street Where is the Wall Street? 11 meters wide 500 meters long Although, geographical Wall Street is very small, but in the real sense, Wall Street is the capital market and stands for the financial services industryMany financial institutions are in the Wall Street New York Stock Exchange ,NYSE The Wall Street actually represents a system of financial empire But how did it formed? 400 years ago, here was a desolate(荒凉的) place In the year 1621,the Dutch bought the land with only 24$, and established market. In order to prevent the American Indian attacking, they built a wall. In 1783, After winning the Independent War, The Federal government of the United States (美国联邦政府）was set in New York. Because of the war spending, the treasury(国库） was empty . Alexander Hamilton亚历山大·汉密尔顿 He was the first finance minister of America. He established a series of financial policy, which promoted the economic development of America. So, he was called The father of Wall Street. Before 1792,the rules of stock trading was disordered, so was the market. Then on May 17th,1792,some bankers and brokers(经纪人)got together and signed an agreement under a buttonwood tree. We call the agreement Buttonwood Agreement（梧桐树协议） “We the subscribers（签署者）, brokers(经纪人） for the purchase and sale of public stock do hereby solemnly promise and pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not buy or sell from this day on for any persons whatsoever any kind of public stock at a less rate than one-quarter percent commission on the specie value of, and that we will give preference to each other in our negotiations. In Testimony where of we have set our hands this 17th day of May at NewYork,1792. Buttonwood Agreement Although the agreement was very short, It was the beginning of the New York stock exchange(纽约证券交易所） The New York stock exchange Before the bull fighting, it usually lower its head, which just like the stock price going down before rising. Trinity Church 三一教堂 There buried the g