New York Stock Exchange wants to partially open again

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New York The New York Stock Exchange wants to partially open its trading room, which was closed during the corona crisis, at the end of May. On the day after Memorial Day on May 25 – an American holiday in honor of the war dead – the floor will be accessible again to a group of brokers, announced the President of the New York Stock Exchange (Nyse), Stacey Cunningham, on Thursday in one Comment published by the Wall Street Journal. The returnees then have to wear protective masks and observe distance rules.

Large corporation employees who are in the Nyse trading room during normal times will mainly continue to be in the home office. They have been working from home since March 23, after the stock market switched to electronic trading as a precautionary measure. The reason was positive Covid 19 tests in two people in the exchange.

As late as the 1990s, several thousand brokers and other players cavorted in the trading room of the New York Stock Exchange. But in the years that followed, electronic commerce increasingly dominated events on Wall Street. Around 500 floor dealers are currently still active at Nyse.

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