And on August 9th, on the same day as its victory over Samsung in the European courts, Apple even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the world's largest company by market capitalisation.

8月9日，正好是在欧洲法庭上对三星起诉的胜利之日，苹果的市场总值更是暂时超越了埃克森美孚，成为世界上最大的公司。

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Since 1982, the profits of financial firms in America have risen from 4% of overall profits to more than 40%. (Neither Europe nor Japan has experienced the same phenomenon.) As a whole, the finance industry makes up nearly one-quarter of America's overall stockmarket capitalisation, up from a bit over 5% in the 1970s.

ECONOMIST: Business is booming almost everywhere

At one point recently, annualised turnover reached 1, 100% of market capitalisation. (Compare that with America's Nasdaq market, which barely turns over more than three times in a year.) Now that more than half of all trades take place online, however, the level of average commissions has more than halved.

ECONOMIST: Korean finance