WALL STREET Definition & Meaning

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Wall Street

noun

a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
the money market or the financiers of the U.S.

Wall Street

noun

a street in lower Manhattan, New York, where the Stock Exchange and major banks are situated, regarded as the embodiment of American finance

Wall Street

A street in New York City on which the New York Stock Exchange and many investment firms are located. The street's name is often used in reference to the activities conducted on it: “ Stock prices fell on Wall Street.”

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Origin of Wall Street¹

1820–30, Americanism Wall Street fordef 2

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The activity implied that treasuries may have lost their glow, or that the stock market collapse had produced untenable losses among Wall Street traders.

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CIA director John Ratcliffe was present at the exchange, the Wall Street Journal said.

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They have been joined in recent days by big-name Wall Street figures.

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Meanwhile, Trump has pressed ahead, even as some allies – in Congress and on Wall Street – wonder if he's going too far.

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By the end of the session, "he was ready to kill me," Chapman later told the Wall Street Journal.

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