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40 unusual facts about Wall Street


Automated valuation model

Appraisers, investment professionals and lending institutions use AVM technology in their analysis of residential property.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

Equitable Life Insurance opened its headquarters at the Equitable Life Building in 1875 near Wall Street.

Barack Obama election victory speech, 2008

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

Bill Mathis

After retiring from football, Mathis began a career on Wall Street, starting at the firm Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt.

Carrington family

The company's New York office is three blocks from Wall Street.

Chartwell

He withdrew after industrialist Sir Henry Strakosch agreed to take over his share portfolio (which had suffered heavily from losses on Wall Street) for three years and pay off heavy debts.

Craig Beardsley

He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in management in 1983, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great." Beardsley became a Wall Street trader, working for Prudential Securities in New York City.

Dalal

The term "Dalal Street" is used in the same way as "Wall Street" in the U.S., referring to the India's major stock exchanges and overall financial system.

Doug Sulliman

After coaching for the Devils, Sulliman spent the next decade and a half working on Wall Street and in the insurance industry.

Dyer Pearl

Dyer Pearl (1857 - September 1930) was a prominent Wall Street businessman and a member of the New York Stock Exchange for

Eugene Nickerson

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

Franklin D'Olier

He said to Marquis James, "I don't feel welcome down here any more. There are a lot of people in this neighborhood (referring to Wall Street) who used to think I was a pretty descent, respectable business man who knew the rules of the game and played by them. Now they treat me as if I belonged to the I.W.W." (A History of the American Legion" by Marquis James. Pg. 141 Wm Green. 1923.)

Government National Mortgage Association

These securities, or “pools” of mortgage loans, are used as collateral for the issuance of securities on Wall Street.

Greystone Park

They met at a dinner with Oliver Stone when Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was being filmed in October 2009, where they started to discuss ghost stories.

Henry Baldwin Hyde

Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made one fatal miscalculation, and set in motion the first great Wall Street scandal of the twentieth century.

I Love New Year

The movie follows two strangers, a beautiful musician (Kangana Ranaut) and a serious Wall Street banker (Sunny Deol), that have a chance encounter on New Year's Eve that the banker can't seem to remember and the events that come about as a result of the two meeting.

Inspiration, Please!

The show was produced by Trinity Productions at the Trinity TV Studios at Trinity Church at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street in New York City.

Interbank foreign exchange market

Unlike the Stock Market, the Foreign Currency Exchange Market (Forex) does not have a physical central exchange like the NYSE does at 11 Wall Street.

Intereconomía Corporation

The corporate logo is a bull, inspired by the famous one which is placed in Wall Street.

James Stanley Freeman

James Stanley Freeman (May 12, 1874 in Jasper, Alabama – April 26, 1960 in Jasper, AL), known as "Big Jim", was an Alabama millionaire in the early 20th century and one of the first Americans to amount a fortune through Wall Street investments.

Jimmy King

In a phone interview on the Jim Rome Show on November 30, 2006, Jimmy stated he was working as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch on Wall Street.

John Bond Trevor

John Bond Trevor (1822 – 1890) was an American financier and Wall Street pioneer.

Knife Edge

A successful Wall Street trader returns to Britain with her family, but her new home in the countryside contains a disturbing secret.

Lions in the Street

Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms is a 1973 book by Paul Hoffman.

Milla de Oro

The stretch is famous for the number of local and international banks and financial company's headquarters and buildings, located in the area, which have led some to call it the "Wall Street of the Caribbean".

Mr. O'Malley

Throughout the course of his comic career Mr. O'Malley stumbled his way into the U.S. Congress and became a Wall Street tycoon.

Nasdaq Market Makers Antitrust Litigation

Nasdaq Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation - class-action lawsuit initiated in 1996 alleging collusion amongst Wall Street traders.

Oakleigh Thorne

Thorne was president of Trust Company of America when its main office on Wall Street was the target of a bank run starting on Wednesday, October 23, 1907, during the Panic of 1907.

Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium

Saunders built the Pink Palace mansion as his own residence in 1923, but lost the home because of financial reversals on Wall Street.

Robert Hathaway

Hathaway was born in East Orange, New Jersey, the third of four sons of the Wall Street banker Charles Hathaway and his wife Cora (née Southworth Rountree).

Second Battle of Rivas

The commercial exploitation of this route had been attained from a previous Nicaraguan administration to Wall Street tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company.

Sense on Cents

It is authored and managed by Larry Doyle, a 23-year Wall Street veteran, and is found at www.senseoncents.com.

Shell Shaker

Adair Billy: The youngest sister of the modern family, Adair is a high paid New Orleans securities investor who is obsessed with the macabre and is known around the Wall Street community for hearing voices that lead her to good decisions.

Shenton Way

Officially opened in 1951, it became known as Singapore's Wall Street when commercial developments and government officers were built there from the 1970s onwards, and continues to be a prime commercial address almost on par with that of Raffles Place today.

Simplicato

Mr. Tanamy’s experience in the Wall Street community gave insight into the trend that eventually pushed email into the premier vehicle of delivering corporate communication.

Slip-on shoe

These Gucci loafers (now a general term referring to shoes of this style by any manufacturer) also spread over the Atlantic and were worn by 1970s businessmen, becoming almost a Wall Street uniform, reaching widespread use by the 1980s.

Starrett Corporation

The latter subsidiary owned the thirty-five story Wall and Hanover Building at 59 - 63 Wall Street, Manhattan.

Think Positive

Various social and lobbying activities were implemented in the three countries such as Wall Street advertisement, signature collecting for better acceptance of people living with HIV in their societies, lectures in schools and universities and other activities.

Tobin tax

Keynes' concept stems from 1936 when he proposed that a transaction tax should be levied on dealings on Wall Street, where he argued that excessive speculation by uninformed financial traders increased volatility.

Wall Street Warriors

Wall Street Warriors is a documentary and reality TV series that details the lives of various Wall Street entrepreneurs.


Beau Purple

Beau Purple was the first horse ever bred by Hobeau Farm of Wall Street mutual-fund developer Jack Dreyfus.

Brooklyn Army Terminal

New York Water Taxi's Rockaway/Sandy Hook beach service formerly linked the 58th Street Pier at Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11/Wall Street, the East 34th Street Ferry Landing, the Sandy Hook Bay Marina, and/or Riis Landing during the rush hour and on summer weekends.

Democracy for America

In response to the Wall Street-driven financial crisis, DFA launched their “Move Your Money Campaign” with The Huffington Post and filmmaker Eugene Jarecki.

Erin Wyatt

Erin Wyatt is an Ohio-born American model and actress who has appears in such movies as Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and television shows such as Ugly Betty and Smash.

Georgia Anderson

From there, she put her education to good use and found herself working in Futures and Forex as a broker on Wall Street, which inspired her to author a beginner's guide on the subject: ‘Technical Analysis For Day Trading of Forex and Futures’.

Gilbert Miller

His third wife was Kathryn (Kitty) Bache (1896–1979), a daughter of the Wall Street financier Jules Bache, a supporter of American theatre who in 1941 helped found the New York branch of the Escholier Club.

Lower Manhattan Hospital

The Hospital serves the area’s diverse neighborhoods including Wall Street, Battery Park City, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, Little Italy, and the Lower East Side.

No Income No Asset

The term was also popularized in the 2010 US film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps by the character Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas.

Ricardo Cortez

When he retired from the film business, Cortez returned to New York, working as a stockbroker for Salomon Brothers on Wall Street.

Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

Disgraced, he returned to New York and took work as a messenger boy for a carpet company and a Wall Street bank.

Roberto Goizueta

"What are you doing here? Marcos has declared elections. I am Cuban. I have no country to go back to. You have a chance to do something for your country." (speaking to his friend, Philippine Senator Mar Roxas, then a Wall Street investment banker in 1985. Senator Roxas ran for the Philippine Presidential election in May 2010.)

SeaStreak

On January 9, 2013, at around 8:45 a.m., Seastreak Wall Street, arriving at Pier 11 from Atlantic Highlands, rammed into the mooring as it was docking, leaving a visible gash in the ferry stretching several feet above the water line.

Thomas Belesis

Belesis played both on- and offscreen roles on the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, appearing as a trader alongside Jacob "Jake" Moore (Shia LaBeouf) and serving as advisor to Oliver Stone, helping the director to capture a more authentic view of Wall Street.

Thomas Suozzi

The campaign was funded largely by big business, in the form of Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, former NYSE CEO Richard Grasso, David Mack of the MTA, and many individuals on Wall Street who had been investigated and prosecuted by Eliot Spitzer.

WETR

WETR airs "Life changing talk radio" that includes Bill Bennett, Dr. Laura, Dave Ramsey, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Costas on the Radio, Watchdog on Wall Street, Sports Spectrum, Forbes Radio, The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show, and Laura Ingraham on Saturdays, and Todd Feinberg, Steppin' Out, Small Business Advocate, Christian programming and several "Best of" shows on Sundays.

William A. Conway

William A. Conway's career was notable for the fact that he rose from Wall Street messenger boy to CEO of Garden State National Bank ("Garden State"), but he is best remembered for his efforts working as an activist shareholder of behalf of minority stockholders of Garden State during the late 1970s.

William B. Blount

Prosecutors also alleged that Blount bought Langford expensive gifts such as Tourneau and Rolex watches, totaling about $22,000, and luxury clothing during trips to New York City, where commissioners discussed bond deals with Wall Street.