Wall Street

Example Sentences

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Not long ago, the word trillionaire only appeared in The Wall Street Journal as hyperbole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

A report in the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday said OpenAI’s chief executive officer Sam Altman is urgently exploring options to lure corporate customers away from its main competitor Anthropic.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Citigroup is establishing a way for its wealthy and institutional clients to trade shares of private companies through a blockchain, a venture it hopes will be adopted by other banks across Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Part of the losses are due to the fact that Wall Street is ditching momentum plays this month, after aggressively chasing them in April and May.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Someone on Wall Street would notice the fantastic increase in the riskiness of subprime mortgages and raise the price of insuring them accordingly.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis