Traveling Finance
Cowbells to history: The New York Stock Exchange comes to Rice
Around 200 graduate students and faculty at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business stood on the bull-and-bear-statue flanked steps of McNair Plaza to ring 200 blue cowbells to signal the official close of business for the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Rice became only the second university in the nation to ring the closing bell remotely from campus.
The closing bell ringing was part of a day-long summit of NYSE corporation CEOs at the Jones School to discuss the future of capital markets. Panel members included Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE-Euronext; James Hackett, CEO of Anadarko Petroleum and President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board of Governors; and James Turley, Global Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young, as well as Jones School of Business deans.
Video of the panel discussions and the bell-ringing are available on both the university and NYSE Web sites.