The Foreign Exchange Market of London: Development Since 1900

by John Atkin

Book Overview

Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering $504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign exchange activity takes place in the United Kingdom, compared with only sixteen per cent in the United States and nine per cent in Japan.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041534901X
• ISBN13: 9780415349017
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"