With hopes of dispensing the “perfect antidote” to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000-pound bronze bull statue design… ...

The “Charging Bull” and “Fearless Girl” statues in New York’s financial district. (Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press) ...

How artist Kristen Visbal created the bronze statue of a young girl that was placed in front of the iconic Wall Street bull in downtown New York on Tuesday morning.

Some fans of the bronze girl already see the bull much differently. “The bull represents men and power,” says Cristina Pogorevici, 18, a student from Bucharest, Romania, ...

Wednesday morning, the famed Wall Street Bull found something standing in its way: A bronzed little girl, hands on hips and feet set apart, staring down gender inequality.

Wall Street’s iconic bronze bull statue was just joined by a new arrival, installed Tuesday morning. But whereas the animal, officially named Charging Bull, is meant to represent the prosperity ...