Interesting, I like the composition, it's not dead center, it has appealing lines which provide both contradiction and symmetry to me.
The colors are plain and simple. I feel I could definitely see this photo in the paper for some kind of an article, but, it needs the story.
I feel that this photo is missing a link to a good story. It's simple, abstract but does not have a story behind it. For example, the title you gave it links to the image but even there, we could do choose a different more suitable title like "Stock Market in a slump, dead end for investors?" or something similar.
I think technical quality is superb, but artistic value is only mediocre.
Nice angle here, I like the clean background, and the way you didn't shoot straight on. Very nice use of blank space as well. I really like this picture, because of the clean look to it. Even though it's not extremely exciting I really think this is a great photo. My first -10- Nice job, and good luck!
Funny, I really liked the angle of the sign in this shot. I am also glad you included the whole sign too. At first I was thinking there was just too much open space, put after using envelopes to imitate cropping, I like the open space. If it was cropped then the sign would be dead center and that just doesn't work too well. The color contast between the bright blue and yellow are great also. Good crisp focus. I guess the only draw back in my mind that it is kinda boring, but then street signs as a subject is fairly boring also.8.