Read the text and for each gap tick the correct option. Wall Street is a street New York City's financial district. People also use Wall Street to mean the whole financial district. The Dutch gave the street
name. They built a wall there to protect the area from the British in the 17th century.
Wall Street is one of the main financial centres in the world,
with London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The New York Stock Exchange opens every morning at 9:30 a.m. and closes at 4 p.m. The
for opening and closing is a bell and they often invite a celebrity to ring it.
In the early part of the 20th century, Wall Street was the centre of the financial world. Millions of people wanted to invest money in the New York Stock Exchange because it was
so well. Their money grew and grew and investors became rich. It seemed
good to be true - and it was.
The Wall Street Crash began on 24 October 1929. The value of investments started to fall and soon everybody wanted to get their money back. Investors panicked and the situation got
. The New York Stock Exchange lost 89% of its value very quickly and caused the worst global depression in history

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