English is the mandatory working language of all global trading floors

Evidence

All trading conversations are conducted in English; switching from the face-to-face situation to the face-to-screen situation entails switching to English, which is used on all trading floors worldwide. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 109

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, concrete nugget about global market practice — face-to-face local talk coexists with English-only screen conversation worldwide.
• XREF: connects to: English is a working lingua franca, not a majority spoken tongue — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 162; English in the Gulf serves mainly technical and professional ends — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 403

Related

• English is a working lingua franca, not a majority spoken tongue (similarity 0.86)
• English in the Gulf serves mainly technical and professional ends (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• English is a working lingua franca, not a majority spoken tongue #expands (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 162
• English in the Gulf serves mainly technical and professional ends #qualifies (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 403