Terminals can lease for way more than $24,000 depending on additional data options, and an investment bank can easily spend more than $50m on them. There will

Terminals can lease for way more than $24,000 depending on additional data options, and an investment bank can easily spend more than $50m on them. There will also be Reuters, Datastream and various other terminals with not quite substitutable functionality kicking around the office, so they're not totally 'in the dark' its just a bit less convenient and some trades could be missed.