What is "wall street"

Wall Street \Wall Street\ A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country; -- in American financial publications, also referred to as the street.

"U.S. financial world," 1836, from street in New York City that is home to many investment firms and stock traders, as well as NYSE. The street so called because it ran along the interior of the defensive wall of the old Dutch colonial town.

Wall Street is a street running eight blocks, roughly northwest to southeast, from Broadway to South Street on the East River in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, 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 (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Owen Morrisey, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Ovitz, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modeled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested; Stone, meanwhile, wanted Richard Gere, but Gere passed on the role. Stone went with Douglas even though he had been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him.

The film was well received among major film critics. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success, with Douglas' character declaring that "greed is good." It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street, with Sheen, Douglas, and Stone commenting over the years how people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film.

Stone and Douglas reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which was released theatrically on September 24, 2010.

Wall Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. It is served by the 4 train at all times and the 5 train at all times except late nights.

Wall Street is a street in New York City which runs through the historical center of the Financial District.

Wall Street also refers to:

• The Wall Street Journal, a daily newspaper in New York City
• Financial District, Manhattan, a New York City neighborhood containing the headquarters of many of the city's major financial institutions
• Financial market of the United States, particularly major participants in New York City
• These New York City Subway stations in Manhattan:
  • Wall Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line), at Williams Street; serving the trains
  • Wall Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), at Broadway; serving the trains
• Wall Street (Winnipeg), a street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Wall Street (train) a former train of the Reading Railroad
• Big business, often contrasted with "Main Street" small business

In arts and entertainment:

• Wall Street (1915 photograph)
• Wall Street (1929 film), directed by Roy William Neill
• Wall Street (1987 film), directed by Oliver Stone
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, (2010 film), directed by Oliver Stone, sequel to the 1987 film
• Wall Street, a 1997 book by Doug Henwood
• "Wall Street", a character in the 2002 film The Transporter

Wall Street is an American Pre-Code drama film released on December 1, 1929 and was produced by Harry Cohn, directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick.

The soundtrack for the 1987 Oliver Stone movie Wall Street was composed and arranged by Stewart Copeland. It was released on LP record in 1988, followed by a CD version in 1993.

Copeland is praised for a "relentless, pounding soundtrack, very much a product of its time". The music for the film also contains songs by Frank Sinatra (" Fly Me to the Moon") and by David Byrne and Brian Eno.

'Wall Street 'is a platinum palladium print photograph by the American photographer Paul Strand taken in 1915. There are currently only two vintage prints of this photograph with one at the Whitney Museum of American Art (printed posthumously) and the other, along with negatives, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This photograph was included in Paul Strand, circa 1916, an exhibition of photographs that exemplify his push toward modernism.

It depicts a scene of everyday life in Manhattan's Financial District. Workers are seen walking past the J.P. Morgan building in New York City on the famous Wall Street, of which the photograph takes its name. The photograph is famous for its reliance on the sharpness and contrast of the shapes and angles, created by the building and the workers, that lead to its abstraction. This photograph is considered to be one of Strand's most famous works and an example of his change from pictorialism to straight photography. Strand moved from the posed to portraying the purity of the subjects. It is one of several images that stand as marks of the turn to modernism in photography. __NOTOC__

Wall Street is the fourth studio album by Norwegian glam metal band Wig Wam. The album was released in 2012 on May 21. The single "Wall Street" was released on February 24, 2012

Wall Street was the last album recorded by Wig Wam before their break up in 2013