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100 1  Atkin, John, |d1945-
245 14 The foreign exchange market of London : |bdevelopment since 1900 / |cJohn Atkin.
250    1st ed.
260    London ;New York : |bRoutledge, |c2005.
300    1 online resource (220 p.)
336    text |btxt
337    computer |bc
338    online resource |bcr
490 1  Routledge explorations in economic history
505 0  Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Somnolent Years 1900-14; 2 Innocence Lost 1914-18; 3 Tom Tiddler's Ground 1918-31; 4 Off Gold and into the Bank 1931-39; 5 War and peace 1939-51; 6 Regaining lost ground 1951-72; 7 Innovation and deregulation 1972-86; 8 On top of the world 1986-2003; Notes; Bibliography; Index
520    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.However, this has not always been so. A hundred years ago, the London foreign exchange market played second fiddle to more important centres in New York, Paris an
546    English
500    Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
650  0 Foreign exchange market |zEngland |zLondon.
610 20 Bank of England.
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776     |z0-415-34901-X
830  0 Routledge explorations in economic history.
906    BOOK