Ecopetrol´s first day on NY

At 8:30 a.m., the Minister of Energy of Colombia, Hernán Martínez Torres, and the president of Ecopetrol, Javier Gutiérrez Pemberthy, will ring the opening bell on Wall Street.

Today marks the beginning of the oil company's history on the New York Stock Market, the most important stock exchange in the world, at a time when indexes like the Dow Jones, Standard & Poors and Nasdaq are on a strong decline due to the financial crisis in the United States.