平均收入有36萬美元！華爾街十大驚天事實

1. Wall Street is the source of a considerable portion of all NY earnings.
紐約所有收入中的很大一部分都來自於華爾街。

It deals not only with finance, but also insurance and real estate – altogether amounting to 35% of total NY city income.
華爾街不僅有經濟交易，還有保險和房地產交易——總值佔紐約總收入的35%。

2. The earnings of a Wall Street employee is shockingly higher than of an average one in America.
華爾街僱員的收入遠高於美國平均水平。

An average Wall Street employee makes $363,000 (bonuses included) compared to an average American Doctor of Science with $81,400 not to mention those who have not achieved this much.
一位普通華爾街僱員的收入是363000美元（包括獎金），相比之下，一位普通美國理學博士的收入僅爲81400美元，更不用提那些沒有達到博士水平的人了。

3. If you could travel back to 1956 and invest $1,000 with Warren Buffet, you would have more than $300 million today.
如果你能夠回到1956年，和巴菲特一起投資1000美元，那麼今天你將會擁有超過3億美元。

Einstein called compounding "the 8th wonder of the world" for a reason – with a 22% yearly growth, one thousand bucks invested with Warren Buffet 60 years ago would bring you 300 million bucks.
愛因斯坦把複利稱爲“世界第八大奇蹟”是有原因的——沃倫·巴菲特投資的年化收益率爲22%，如果60年前和他一起投資1000美元，現在你會擁有3億美元。

4. Wall Street's history as of the center of business and finance began under a buttonwood tree.
華爾街作爲商業和金融中心的歷史是從一棵梧桐樹下開始的。

It's where twenty four traders signed an agreement to trade stocks with each other and initiate the NY Stock and Exchange Board.
就是在那棵梧桐樹下，24個交易者簽署了進行股票交易和創辦紐約證券交易所的協議。

5. Wall Street is not actually the world coolest financial center.
事實上，華爾街並不是世界上最酷的金融中心。

Its position is second in the list, the first one belongs to London (according to the Global Financial Centres Index).
（根據全球金融中心指數）華爾街排在第二位，而第一位是倫敦。

6. The Wall Street Crash was not so much suicidal as widely believed.
華爾街崩盤並不像大家普遍認爲的那樣會讓很多人自殺。

In the period from Black Thursday to the end of 1929 the number of suicides and suicude attempts in NY amounted to a hundred. However, only 4 of them were connected with the Wall Street Crash.
從黑色星期四到1929年底，紐約的自殺事件和企圖自殺的行爲達到了百起。然而，其中只有四起與華爾街經濟崩盤有關。

7. Director Oliver Stone made two movies about ''Wall Street''.
奧利弗·斯通導演了兩部關於華爾街的電影。

The first one was released in 1987 and starred such prominent actors as Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen, the second one was a sequel of 2010 with Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas who agreed to act
第一部電影在1987年上映，著名演員查理·辛、邁克爾·道格拉斯、戴璐·漢娜和馬丁·辛擔任主演。第二部電影是第一部的續集，於2010年上映。這部電影中，查理·辛和邁克爾·道格拉斯也都同意繼續出演。

8. Wall Street starts trading daily at 9.30 a.m. when it hears the bell of the NY Stock Exchange ringing.
每天早晨9:30，紐約證券交易鐘聲響起時，華爾街開始交易。

The closing bell rings at 4 p.m. Many famous people at different times have obtained the honour to ring it.
收盤的鐘聲在下午四點響起，許多不同時期的名人都得到過敲鐘的榮譽。

9. 16.4 million shares were being traded on Black Tuesday – this record lasted for forty years.
黑色星期二那天有1640萬股的交易額——這個記錄已經保持了40年。

People were shouting out ''Sell! Sell! Sell!'' so loudly that the opening bell was not ever heard. A lot of investors lost all their life savings within seconds.
人們大喊着''賣！賣！賣！''，叫聲大到幾乎聽不到鐘聲開始響起。許多投資者在幾秒內就失去了他們的全部家當。

10. The first location of the NY Stock Exchange was a Coffee house.
紐約證券交易所的第一個地址是一家咖啡館。

The Tontine Coffee House was placed on the corner of Wall Street and Water Street. The New York Stock Exchange has moved many times, the current building was constructed in 1903.
唐塔咖啡館位於華爾街與水街的拐角處。紐約證券交易經過數次搬遷，目前所在的建築建於1903年。