After a necessary repair, the famous bronze statue of the bull has returned to the entrance of the Amsterdam stock exchange. The bull, which was secretly placed there in 2012 by Italian-American artist Arturo di Modica (1941-2021), broke a leg at the end of 2019. The returned sculpture is a replica of the \u2018Charging Bull\u2019 which the artist placed at the New York Stock Exchange in secret in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amsterdam was not an accidental choice. At that time, the Amsterdam stock exchange was part of the transatlantic stock exchange group NYSE Euronext<\/a>. And as the birthplace of the world stock exchange, Amsterdam could not do without a bull. Just like in New York, the bull soon became a tourist attraction. And just like on Wall Street \u2013 shortly after Black Monday<\/a> \u2013 Di Modica wanted to send a positive message during the difficult stock market year of 2012: stay positive in times of crisis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bull is known, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, to be a symbol for optimism and appreciation of value on the stock exchange (bull market). It is often depicted fighting a bear, which in turn reflects a period of pessimism and stock market decline (bear market). The analogy here is that the bull throws the bear (read: the low stock market prices) up with his horns, while the bear tries to pull the bull (read: the high stock market prices) down with his claws. Together, they fight to symbolise the (strong) ups and downs of the market. In this sense, this symbolism differs from Mercury<\/a>, the age-old figurehead of the Amsterdam stock exchange, who symbolises balanced prices and a stable market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Na een reparatie keert het bekende bronzen beeld van de stier weer terug voor de ingang van de Amsterdamse beurs. De stier, die er in 2012 in het geheim werd neergezet door de Italiaans-Amerikaanse kunstenaar Arturo di Modica (1941-2021), brak eind 2019 bij werkzaamheden een poot. Het teruggekeerde beeld is een replica van de \u2018Charging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beursgeschiedenis.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}