In the mid-80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits.

80年代中期，华尔街求助计量经济学 ——聪明的金融工程师——以发明新的方法来增加利润。

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The answer to #2 is that Wall Street hedge funds, using techniques pioneered in the mid-90s by Long Term Capital Management, have figured out ways to borrow large sums of money at virtually no cost.

第二个问题的答案是， 华尔街的对冲基金运用90年代中期长期资本管理公司开发的技术，计算出借大笔的钱而成本几乎可以不计的方法。

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During the Wall Street crisis in mid-2009 the IT firms' revenue growth slowed almost to zero as customers, especially financial ones, slashed spending.

2009年年中的华尔街危机，IT公司的收入增长几乎降低到零，因为他们的客户、特别是金融方面的客户大幅度削减开支。

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Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 3 percent in mid-day trading.

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With U.S.unemployment near double digits, Cardillo cautions the Obama administration to tone down its rhetoric against Wall Street - something political analysts say is unlikely with U.S.mid-term elections only months away.

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Mid-week, Wall Street stood some 15% lower than at its peak in July.

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Witness Occupy Oakland, Berkeley and Los Angeles on the West Coast, and, in mid-November, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in lower Manhattan.

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The disclosure got little attention until it was reported in The Wall Street Journal in mid-October.

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