The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board")[5] is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York. It is by far the 67th the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion as of February 2018.[8] The average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013. The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading. A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007. The main building and the 11 Wall Street building were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1978.
A main reason that the age of revolutions initially failed to achieve widespread change in some nations of Europe was because many of these failed revolutions took place in the "backyards" of their mother countries--meaning that they were easily taken down with military power.
