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2 merchants and stockbrokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement, on 68 Wall street. In the beginning there were five securities traded in New York City with the first listed company on the NYSE being the Bank of New York.
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Transformed the world’s capital markets by engineering precedent-setting acquisitions, achieving groundbreaking progress, and empowering people to think differently and businesses to compete more effectively.
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Was up because, the shares sold out almost immediately, $22 per share, selling around 4.6 million shares.
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Net Change lost 355.49
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Net change gained 324.83
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Earned $700 billion from a deal
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Dropped roughly 1,100 points in the first five minutes of trading.