<P> Wall Street is an eight - block - long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street , at the East River , in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City . Over time , the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole , the American financial services industry ( even if financial firms are not physically located there ) , or New York - based financial interests . </P>
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Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City