What Wall Street’s Ups and Downs Look Like<br />Men in blue jackets scamper across a trading room floor at the New York Stock Exchange, alternatively delighted or despondent, following rises<br />and falls of geopolitical turmoil, the specter of regulation or, perhaps, the whims of other investors.<br />Change from open: 1.62 %<br />Peter Tuchman, who BuzzFeed called “The Most Photographed Trader on Wall Street,”<br />works on the floor near an area where television stations run their broadcasts.<br />What these images of men on the trading floor convey is the mood of Wall Street, where the action affects everything<br />from the fortunes of corporate executives to retirement savings of middle-class families with 401(k) accounts.<br />500 closed the previous night at 2648.94, and trading in Asian and European markets overnight suggest<br />that United States markets are in for another bad day.<br />And on days like Monday, when the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average both experienced historic drops, pictures of anguished traders in news stories were reminders<br />that what goes up inevitably comes back down (if only to go back up once again).<br />As Wall Street comes alive, an employee walks through Federal Hall with the New York Stock Exchange reflected in the glass door.
