Trading Floor NYSE- 1979

Intermarket trading on the vast trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photographer Thomas O'Halloran, photo created in 27 February 1979. Source: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

The auction process of the New York Stock Exchange moved toward automation in 1995 through the use of wireless handheld computers. Since 2007, all NYSE stocks can be traded via its electronic hybrid market.

The NYSE was originally established by a group of 24 stockbrokers, on May 17, 1792, under a buttonwood tree, outside of 68 Wall Street.