Mr. Winnick ventured to Wall Street in the early 70's, landing a job at Burnham & Company, then a second-rate brokerage firm populated by in-your-face traders and investment bankers down on their luck, hitting the telephones to stir up deals.
Stock prices are imprinted on faces, traders whirl and gyrate like dancers, and analysts sing close-harmony numbers.
The first half of Goold's production reminds one of Citizen Kane in its dazzling, vaudevillian energy: stock prices are imprinted on human faces, traders whirl and gyrate like dancers, analysts sing close harmony numbers.
Mr Smith said a downturn of 4% was "fair estimate" of the situation facing traders in the town.
Yet today's technological challenges are not unlike those faced by traders in the 19th century, whose jobs were revolutionized by the advent of ticker machines.
The vacationers in their shorts, sneakers and floppy hats were often smiling and full of fun -- in sharp contrast to the news-media images of alarm, melancholy and fatigue on the faces of traders inside the exchanges.
Business on the Turkish-Syrian border is bustling, despite the lengthy delays faced by traders.
We learn how Miss Mary's grandfather, a hard, prescient man who, realizing in the 1850s that "the whole thing was over anyway," sold all his field slaves for "30 cents on the dollar" to a "weasel faced" Virginia trader.
Two former JP Morgan traders face criminal charges in the US relating to the case.
"These uninformed traders face a fundamental uncertainty.
That assumption is defensible in a world where traders face mere risk.
