Things are looking up! Peter Tuchman in 2016, when the Dow first cleared 19,000.

The Face (and Maybe the Brains) of Wall Street

Peter Tuchman has spent 35 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange—but doesn’t own one share of stock

By William D. Cohan

If you’ve ever flipped on CNBC on one of those gloomy days when the stock markets are tanking, you’ve seen Peter Tuchman. He’s the fellow with the navy-blue jacket, Hermès tie, silver goatee, and the wild-ass protrusions of white hair on either side of his bald pate that give him more than a passing resemblance to a cross between Albert Einstein and what Larry Fine would look like if the Three Stooges were still in circulation.

He’s the one the cable-TV cameras like to focus on, the number 588 pinned to his lapel, looking particularly concerned, standing on the well-trodden floor of the New York Stock Exchange, even though in his 35 years as a floor broker he’s never owned a share of stock. He has been called the “most photographed man on Wall Street.”