华尔街
Wall Street is the name of a narrow street in lower Manhattan in New York City,running east from Broadway downhill to the East River.Considered to be the historical heart of the Financial District,it was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange.
The phrase "Wall Street" is also used as a metonym to refer to American financial markets and financial institutions as a whole.Most New York financial firms are no longer headquartered on Wall Street,but elsewhere in lower or midtown Manhattan,Fairfield County,Connecticut,or New Jersey.JPMorgan Chase,the last major holdout,sold its headquarters tower at 60 Wall Street to Deutsche Bank in November 2001.
