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[credit provider=”YouTube screengrab”] Wall Streeters speak a different language.The lexicon of the financial services industry is littered with fancy terms derived from the complex mathematical models, clever trading strategies, and strange situations that arise from market phenomena that require new phrases to explain.
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[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hieroglyphs.jpg”] There’s plenty of interesting and helpful Wall Street terminology out there.However, it’s an unfortunate tendency of pundits and analysts alike to try to sound smarter or more connected by tossing around jargon that can be meaningless and even misleading.
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