Stock Trading and Other Things

How does the New York Stock Exchange profit?

Thousands of shares of stock are traded every day in the New York Stock Exchange. How does the exchange profit from doing this, do they get a certain amount or percentage per share? Watching television on a trading day at the New York Stock Exchange you see hundreds of people waving and screaming holding up little pieces of paper, what is this paper? Who are these people and how do they get paid? Are these the people they were talking about getting the million dollars bonuses the first of the year?

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