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     Business and financial news programs and updates also are captioned by MCS. Such programs often include information on individual companies, updates on the stock market, advice for personal investors, and interviews with top executives.      

     Like sports, business news tends to be fast-paced, with a lot of jargon and terminology specific to the genre. Maintaining lists of business names and the names of the people who run them is one important tool used by MCS captioners to maintain quality and keep up with the pace. Our captioners create extensive word lists on business leaders and companies in the news on a daily basis to prepare them for business news programming.

     Another tool that helps is familiarity with market terms. Market pundits often rattle off several terms, like P/E ratios, initial public offerings and other phrases, in rapid succession, while the news anchors read the numbers and fractions of the markets one after the other. Sometimes on-screen charts remove some of the pressure, but MCS captioners are committed to providing high-quality, accurate representation of the program's content. MCS' policy is to provide verbatim captioning to the greatest extent humanly possible, and to be contextually correct.        

 


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