Modern Marvels

Season 5, Episode 11

Episode Title: The Stock Exchange

Air Date: 1997-10-26

Overview:

Welcome to the center of the American economy, where nearly $90-million changes hands each minute. Journey back to the wooden wall, built to hold back Indians, where early traders signed a pact creating the New York Stock Exchange; watch worldwide markets quake with the crash of 1929; and visit today’s computer-driven wonder.