Updated for the 1990s, the cat currently adorns some 5, 000 product lines, from pencilcases to slippers to T-shirts to toasters to mobile phones to credit cards to refrigerators.
On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.