Pro-Palestine protestors cause disturbance outside the New York Stock Exchange

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There was no disruption to trading and none of the protestors appeared to make it to the historic trading floor.
NYSE security fences off a perimeter area outside of the exterior of the building on Broad Street in lower Manhattan.
Chants such as “we want housing, not genocide” and “let Gaza live” could be heard in a livestream on social media platform X.

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