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On this date in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was organized by a group of 24 brokers meeting on the corner of New York City's Wall Street and Water Streets. They made their first transactions under a buttonwood tree (also known as an American sycamore tree) on Wall Street, where they would meet in fair weather - hence, the name.

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