FINANCIAL DEALERS ON WALL-STREET AND IN THE CITY OF LONDON - IS THE STRESS DIFFERENT

This article describes a pilot study of financial dealers working on W all Street, New York which would allow a comparison to be made between them and dealers working in the City of London on the sources of stre ss, personalities, type A behaviour, coping techniques and alcohol con sumption. Other than for demographic data, few differences were found between dealers on Wall Street and either dealers in the City of Londo n in general or dealers working for US-owned financial institutions in the City of London.