STOCK EXCHANGE TERMS
introduced in new picture . Every Stock Exchange seems to have ow n tfnns and expressions, out Perhaps the queerest of all are those ln use to-day on Wall Street. lupes were recently made at the Paramount studios concerning the < ,r *igin of this unique slang, much of wnich will be heard in the Ceorge Ban- \{' 0 m Btarr ’ng picture, “The Wolf of ” a U Street.” Curiously enough the of the terms seem *to have Minuted about the vear 1720 in Lon--5* the time when there was unec^J en ted speculation in the South t C ? m P an > - nrH°‘ day ono who buvs stocks in oraer to sell them at a higher price *no Wn as a “bull.” A “bear" is nhffx r of stocks which he hopes to . later on at a lower price. ch oorn ” *nd “slump” are Stock Exc words, which, however, are in enm2S n use in most English-speaking They are among the few American origin.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 15
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