Published on 16 Mar 2024 on CNN Business via Yahoo Finance
From Wall Street to Chicago, why stock exchanges ring bells
The New York Stock Exchange opens every workday morning at 9:30 am ET with the fast-paced bang-clang of a gleaming brass bell. The stock exchange, the largest in the world by market capitalization, has opened with sonic fanfare for more than 150 years.
The sound, so iconic it is trademarked, reverberates across the trading floor again just before 4 pm ET, when the stock market closes. Once a hubbub of screaming floor brokers and countless sheets of paper strewn on the ground, much of the trading is now electronic in NYSE’s hybrid market. The mayhem has largely died down.
From Wall Street to the Nasdaq Exchange in Times Square to Cboe Global Markets in Chicago, loud, ringing bells bookend each trading session.