Around that time, traders noticed that Mr. Corzine was spending less time on the trading floor.
He received a standing ovation from disappointed workers on the trading floor at Salomon.
Landing her first job at Goldman Sachs , Nundy, 28, worked on the trading floor selling derivatives to large pension funds.
Lazard's Bruce Wasserstein rang the opening bell on his debut day and did a lap around the trading floor.
"You walked onto the trading floor, and it was just 10% full, " says someone who was there at the time.
On the trading floor, Erin was known for her brilliance, leadership, and fashion, embracing her power as a woman of influence.
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Chinese walls or no, it is no accident that most proprietary-trading desks are placed in the middle of the trading floor.
Moreover, the computer systems are often a milisecond ahead of the trading floor and able to profit on half cent price differences.
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The trading floor lost a cadre of brokers thanks to electronic trading.
But, as electronic trading has sapped business from the trading floor, many desks are unmanned and traders have left to conduct business "upstairs"--on a computer.
What's most important in the Trading Floor portfolio is risk management.
As the downdraft worsened, he says an executive for the firm ran on to the trading floor and gave the order to pull out of the market.
After a year spent hoovering up information from traders and making some suggestions of his own, Mr Esteves was given his own berth on the trading floor.
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At twenty something, it was easy for me to believe that I had the Midas touch, and that I could do no wrong on the trading floor.
Asian entrepreneurs also like to be more involved in managing their money than European or Americans are, and are not shy about calling the trading floor directly.
The joke is that with so much of the trade now electronic and at other marketplaces, the trading floor on Wall Street is primarily a backdrop for CNBC.
Since replacing Mr Purcell on June 30th, Mr Mack has made a triumphant tour of his domain, including the trading floor and the headquarters of the retail brokerage.
Lazard's (nyse: LAZ - news - people ) Bruce Wasserstein rang the opening bell on his debut day and did a lap around the trading floor.
Not only did she have a direct phone line to CEO Dick Fuld for many years before becoming CFO, she also rocked pink Prada outfits on the trading floor.
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The selling of stocks took off in earnest at the same moment that Greek police and demonstrators clashed, an event widely televised on the trading floor of the NYSE.
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From the CEOs of the financial firms that crashed and burned to the regulators who missed the warning signs to the guys on the trading floor, all were men.
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But the Neiman shows the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, rather than his customary jock kitsch, and the over-all feel of the offices is boardroom, not locker room.
The Amex's traders will be relocated to the New York Stock Exchange, where there is plenty of room for them on the trading floor due to the rise of electronic trading.
Why, get shirtless on the trading floor, naturally.
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Those locals were initially locked off the trading floor.
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With new regulations favoring automation-- and indeed the NYSE has its own plan to push greater automation on the trading floor-- the future of the specialist system has been called into doubt.
In 1971 a Merc member who had had a bad day sold his seat for a Ben Franklin note, a transaction that took place alongside a urinal in the trading floor men's room.
Even if the NYSE uses this as an opportunity to make even more trading electronic than it already is, for most individual investors, what happens on the trading floor does not have a direct impact.
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As a result of all this, there were about 975 securities affected by an overqueuing of message traffic sent to five trading posts on the trading floor, which resulted in a late close for those posts.
"While Jump got its start on the trading floor in the open-outcry environment, we are now fully committed to taking advantage of the opportunities offered by electronic trading, " the partners say on the Jump Trading Web site.
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