The bronze sculpture of the charging bull that stands on Broadway is perhaps the most well-known totem representing the spirit of the New York Stock Exchange that evolved from a meeting of 24 stockbrokers under a buttonwood tree in 1792 on what is now Wall Street. In contrast, though founded in 1891 and re-established in November 1990, the Shanghai stock exchange is an upstart and is not associated with any specific monument. Had it been, the amulet of a silent dragon could perhaps have been an appropriate one. Has this newcomer, the fictional silent dragon, started questioning the hegemony of
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