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The New York Stock Exchange was founded on May 17, 1792.
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On March 8, 1817, the New York Stock Exchange became what it is today.
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Throughout the 1800's, The New York Stock Exchange surpassed Philidelphia and became the nations capital for financial banking.
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In 1878, telephones were installed in the New York Stock Exchange building. This gave investors the chance to communicate across the country without ever leaving the building.
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On October 23, 1929 the stock market had crashed. This caused everyone from the general public to stock brockers to become very poor. In October 1929, there was an drop in share prices up to 89%.
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On October 19, 1987, nearly 60 years after the start of the Great Depression, the stock market crashed once again. This time stock went down 508 points.
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In October 1988, the New York Stock Exchange had halted or stopped all stock exchange for a brief amount of time.
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On September 11, 2001, Iraq had attacked the American East coast, damaging places like the pentagon, and the world trade center, this had affected the NYSE greatly, in response to the attacks, the NYSE had closed for a while 4 trading quarters.
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In 2007, The stock market had been at an all time low, in fact, the stock market had been so low that it almost surpassed the crashing of the depression.
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On July 8, 2015, all trading was halted or stopped for 4 hours due to technical difficulties. Employees had suspected a cyber security breach.