Monument to Wall Street Glory Becomes Just Another Mortgage Loss

  • AVG Partners buys loan on UBS’s former Stamford trading floor
  • Transaction deals $100 million loss to investors in the debt

People work on the UBS trading floor in Stamford, Connecticut, on Aug. 23, 2011.

Photographer: Douglas Healey/Bloomberg
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It was once a symbol of everything that went right on Wall Street -- a mighty cathedral of frenetic trading on the Connecticut Gold Coast.

Today, 677 Washington Boulevard in Stamford, once home to the world’s largest trading floor, is a monument to debt, default and the shifting fortunes of global finance.