Original sentence: A widely-told story describes a financial coup by Nathan Meyer Rothschild at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.According to this story, Nathan Meyer Rothschild entered the London Stock Exchange on the day of the Battle of Waterloo and started selling British consols, or consolidated annuities, which were fixed-rate bonds with no maturity date: they would pay interest as long as the British Government was solvent.This story has been printed in several books, but appears to lack foundation and may be an urban legend
Edited sentence: A widely-told story, which is apparently without foundation, describes a financial coup by Nathan Meyer Rothschild at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.The story tells how Nathan Meyer Rothschild entered the London Stock Exchange on the day of the Battle of Waterloo and started selling British consols, or consolidated annuities, which were fixed-rate bonds with no maturity date: they would pay interest as long as the British Government was solvent.This story has been printed in several books, but it appears to be an urban legend