Des dizaines de minutes avant que telle information attendue à heure fixe ne tombe, le marché semble retenir son souffle, le défilé des offres et demandes sur l'écran ralentit, puis une fois telle ou telle statistique "fatidique" connue, la folle effervescence des chiffres anime à nouveau l'écran constituant la mappemonde du trader.
For tens of minutes before the time at which some such item of information is expected, the market seems to hold its breath, the stream of on-screen offers and bids slows to a crawl, then, as soon as some new and fateful statistic has finally been revealed, the mad rush of figures again surges across the screens, the sum total of the trader's private world.
