Stock Market Trivia: What was the First Stock Exchange in the United States?

Stock Market Trivia is an irregular feature at Stockerblog.com.

The question of the day is:

What was the first stock exchange in the US? 

Hint:

It is not the New York Stock Exchange.

The answer is:

 The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, founded in 1790, two years before the New York Stock Exchange.

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