Coronavirus stock sell-off: Meet the face of Wall Street's absolute worst moments
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Meet the face of your money going down the drain.
Wall Street trader Peter Tuchman has been captured freaking out on camera more than a dozen times during some of the most catastrophic financial crashes of the past two decades — including the mortgage-lending stock dive of 2007 and the coronavirus-fueled plunge Thursday.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’m the guy — I’m the face,” Tuchman told The Post on Friday — after yet another devastating loss at the New York Stock Exchange. “What can I say, I have a boisterous character. Whether it’s up or down, I react.”
Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP)
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He added, “I love being photographed.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The spirited stock man is shown in photos furrowing his brow, grabbing his head with a pained expression and hunched with his face in his hands. In others, he appears to be breathing a sigh of relief.
On Thursday, the Dow lost nearly 1,200 points — its worst single-day point drop in its 124-year history — as the worsening coronavirus outbreak fueled global financial fears.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The spirited stock man is shown in photos furrowing his brow, grabbing his head with a pained expression and hunched with his face in his hands. In others, he appears to be breathing a sigh of relief.
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Asked about the latest plunge, Tuchman said, “It’s clearly a big deal. Even if it’s contained, it will be significant to the global economy.”
But Tuchman, who has worked as a trader for 30 years, added, “It’s by no means the end of the world.”
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Photos of Tuchman have been snapped including July 26, 2007, when stock investors fled amid uneasiness about the mortgage lending markets; Jan. 4, 2018, when the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 25,000 points for the first time, and Feb. 28, 2020, when markets were poised to end their worst week in more than a decade.
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