Leonard Doyle

What`s up, Lenny, a broker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange says, just before the ringing of the Pavlovian bell that opens the financial market. Lenny answers this morning bid with the customary response: What`s up.

Posed less as a sincere inquiry into one`s well-being than as a passing nod to another day in the financial scrum, the greeting can also be interpreted in these uncertain times as a question baldly seeking reassurance: What`s up?
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By Leonard Doyle in Washington