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There are five securities traded in New York City. Three are government bonds and two are bank stocks.
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In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the market for securities in New York begins to grow. Along with government bonds, bank and insurance stocks now trade.
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The first railroad stock, Mohawk & Hudson, is traded on the NYS&EB. Railroad securities will dominate trading for the rest of the 1800s.
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The NYS&EB prohibits its members from trading in the street.
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The Exchange experiences its first million-share day on December 15.
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Annual turnover of shares on the NYSE reaches an all-time high of 319 percent.
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"Black Tuesday," prices fall sharply and the stock market "crashes." This "crash" produces a record volume of nearly 16 million shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls more than 11 percent.
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Average daily volume on the NYSE exceeds 4 million shares, nearly triple the level immediately following the war.
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More than 51 million Americans own stocks, according to the latest NYSE census.
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On March 19, the Dow Jones Industrial Averages tops 10,000 for the first time.
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Volume of trading on the NYSE exceeded 2 billion shares for the first time on this day, when 2.129 billion shares changed hands. This record-volume day followed the previous day's 1/2-percentage-point interest rate cut by the Fed Reserve, which lowered the fed funds rate to 6 percent.
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Shares of the newly formed NYSE Group begin trading under Ticker Symbol NYX.
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NYSE Euronext’s U.S. futures exchange completes its first day of trading. NYSE Euronext had purchased CME Group’s Metals Complex earlier in 2008.
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The stock exchange was shut down for 2 days due to Hurricane Sandy, the last time the stock exchange was closed due to weather for a full two days was on March 12 and 13 in 1888.
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The stock exchange was fined $4.5 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges it violated market rules.
