noun General Slang

The Street

· noun · finance

The collective US investment-banking and trading world.

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Shorthand for Wall Street as a hive mind — every bank, broker-dealer, analyst and trader rolled into one entity that has opinions, expectations and grudges. "The Street" beats earnings, hates a guidance cut, and never forgives a CFO who lies on a call.

“The Street was looking for $1.20 — they printed $1.08 and the stock got destroyed after-hours.”
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By geography, the actual lower-Manhattan strip and the banks physically clustered around it — though most of them moved to midtown decades ago.

“He's been on the Street since the Drexel days.”
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The Street In A Sentence

The Street was looking for $1.20 — they printed $1.08 and the stock got destroyed after-hours.
He's been on the Street since the Drexel days.

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