Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
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