The New York Stock Exchange which has been closed due to an electrical transformer supplying downtown Manhatten areas was destroyed during Tropical Storm Sandy. The storm hit New York and other parts...

Nikkei Stock Average is reflected in an office building window in Tokyo.

Lower Manhattan near Wall Street is virtually deserted and without electrical power after the storm. A ripped American flag flies over the door of the American Stock Exchange on the day after Tropical...

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the oldest stock exchange in Asia.

Architectural detail of the Paris stock exchange.

Interior view of the Athens Stock Exchange. Greece has staggering public debt and budget deficits due to the global recession.

A television set for the show Fast Money with coverage of the Nasdaq in New York.

The Gateway of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), which was opened in 2004 and acts as a centre for banking, insurance and finance. The Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) is c...

Images of pedestrians reflected on a glass panel at a securities exchange house in Shanghai.

Investors watch and trade at one of the securities exchange house in Shanghai.

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

A firefighter looks for smoke outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street.

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, with a statue of George Washington at right.

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Share prices are displayed on a television set with the name NASDAQ, a technology heavy virtual stock exchange, in Times Square.

Nancy Illoh, a reporter on The Money Show, a program about finance and stocks on African Independent Television (AIT) broadcasts live from a balcony above the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Nancy Illoh, a reporter on The Money Show, a program about finance and stocks on African Independent Television (AIT) broadcasts live from a balcony above the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Nancy Illoh, a reporter on The Money Show, a program about finance and stocks on African Independent Television (AIT) broadcasts live from a balcony above the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

A trader on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Investors and members of the public pass the statue of bronze bull at the fortified entrance to the Stock Exchange.

Street children running in front of a statue of a bronze bull at the fortified entrance to the Stock Exchange.

Investors and the public walking past bronze bull statue at the entrance to the Stock Exchange.

House topped with satellite dishes, with the Bombay Stock Exchange in the background.

Exterior of the Stock Exchange.

Traditional woodframe building sits in front of the tower of the Stock Exchange in central Mumbai.

Exterior of the Stock Exchange.

Exterior of the Stock Exchange.

Exterior of the Stock Exchange.

Exterior of the Stock Exchange.

People walk through a park with a colonial-era clock tower and the Stock Exchange tower in the distance.

Colonial-era clock tower and the Stock Exchange building.

An investor talks on his mobile phone as he watches announcements as they come up on the outside of the Bombay Stock Exchange. Behind him an advert for a high interest deposit account tempts people to...

Investors watch announcements as they come up on the outside of the Stock Exchange.

An investor checks one of his two mobile phones outside of the Stock Exchange.

The Stock Exchange building.

Dealers in the trading room of a stock/share company registered on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Dealers in the trading room of a stock/share company registered on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Dealers in the trading room of a stock/share company registered on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Interior of the Stock Exchange building.

Bull statue at the entrance to the Stock Exchange building.

The Stock Exchange building.

Dealers in the trading room of a stock/share company registered on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Dealer in the trading room of a stock/share company registered on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

A stock broker checks the market activity after the end of the day's trading on his Palm PC outside the Mumbai Stock Exchange.

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders inside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Traders inside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Anti-capitalist demonstration on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions with up...

Outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institu...

A TV news reporter does a piece-to-camera on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institut...

A crowd gathers on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

A Wall Street banker walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financia...

A Wall Street banker walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financia...

American flags attached to a lamppost on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions...

A banker on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

Anti-capitalist demonstration on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions with up...

Mobile broadcast antennas on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country'...

An argument breaks out bewteen a Muslim ex-serviceman and a journalist on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the countr...

A Wall Street worker is interviewed outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ail...

Anti-capitalist demonstration on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions with up...

Anxious bankers on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street.

A crowd gathers on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing f...

A Wall Street banker walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financia...

A Wall Street banker is interviewed outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ail...

A Wall Street banker is interviewed outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ail...

A Wall Street banker walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financia...

Workers walk down Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing fi...

A crowd gathers on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financia...

A worried looking banker on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

Anxious bankers on Wall Street on the day when share prices plummeted after the US Government failed to reach an agreement to bail out the country's ailing financial institutions.

Traders at Kuwait's Stock Market.

Stock market traders at Qatar securities market.

Stock market traders at Qatar securities market.