Trading floor bustle gives way to the sound of silence
By Simon Boughey
Published: April 25 2011 Financial News
Trading floors used to be such fun places. Even in quiet periods in the market, there would be the low hum of a hundred voices speaking into telephones, which would rise to a frenzied cacophony punctuated by a blizzard of profanity during busy times. Now, there’s only a sepulchral hush, as lines of young men in tieless shirts stare mutely into a phalanx of screens.
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