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The NYSE was founded on may 17th, 1792 by 24 stockbrokers. The stockbrokers all signed the Buttonwood Agreement on Wall street. This agreement eliminated the need for auctioneers.
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On this date, 25 years after the NYSE was created, it was officially named the New York Stock Exchange Board. After this, the NYSE expanded beyond government bonds and bank stocks.
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The location changed several times before settling into its present location at 11 Wall Street in 1865, but it has stayed there ever since.
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the stocks crashed sending the U.S. economy into the great depression
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After the stock market crashed, the government began regulating the NYSE
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508 points, the biggest crash since 1929.
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NYSE merged with Archipelago Holdings, forming NYSE Group
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Stocks went dropped significantly, but did not cause the chaos that occurred in 1929
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NYSE Group, Inc. combined with Euronext N.V. to create the holding company NYSE Euronext
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Trading volume on the NYSE in 2015 totaled US$18 trillion,
