It's the world's third-largest exchange, after New York and Tokyo, for gold trading, and the second largest for both silver and natural gas.
That in a way is a measure of its success, and Hailo is hoping to reproduce that network effect in New York and Tokyo.
As London has become a powerhouse of global business, alongside New York and Tokyo, so the City can no longer accommodate all the multinationals flocking to London.
Maybe, after a century or so of becoming ever more densely concentrated in big cities such as London, New York and Tokyo, financial firms are set to scatter again.
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This is true if you stand far enough away from the two parties -- in the same way New York and Tokyo would look similar if you were standing on the moon.
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But nowadays Amstrad dominates the market not just in home computers and laptops but in mobile phones, while Clive Sinclair's latest tablet had geeks queueing outside Spectrum stores in London, New York and Tokyo.
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It is true, says Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, that London's mayor is weaker than his counterparts in New York and Tokyo, and that much power, particularly over schools, remains with the city's 32 boroughs.
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In 1950, the world had exactly two megacities, New York and Tokyo. (A megacity is defined as a metropolitan area of 10 million people or more.) As of 2010, Earth had 23 megacities, 12 of them in Asia.
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And disciplinary action has been taken and is being taken against traders in New York, London and Tokyo who committed the offences.
Housing densities tend to be much lower in and around London than in other cities of similar scale like New York, Paris and Tokyo.
This is why stocks cost, except for fractions of a moment, the same in London and New York, bonds in Tokyo and London, tin in Jakarta and Munich (allowing for taxes and transport costs).
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Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, London and Tokyo.
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Other security analysts in New York, Chicago and Tokyo will be studying the responses by Cat, Komatsu and others to new Chinese competition.
The CIO at Barclays Capital, a few generations back, told me he wanted a software license with the same pricing, expiration date and use terms in London, New York, Tokyo, Sidney and other offices.
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Today, Stephen is a one-of-a-kind landscape artist, having depicted prominent cityscapes such as New York, Tokyo and Rome from pure memory.
The firms had gone bust and the bill was paid by shareholders in Frankfurt, Tokyo, New York and London.
And for those who follow the global markets, Girard-Perregaux's watch provides a financial function that keeps track of opening and closing times on the stock exchange in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
These folks are taking their cues from New York, LA, Tokyo and London, but reinventing them with a Middle Eastern twist.
Average leisure property prices in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney recovered from a 3.8% drop in the first half of 2011 to see a 0.3% increase in the second half of the year.
Maybe even more so because how many times have I heard visiting designers from New York and Paris say that walking around in Hong Kong and Tokyo is like seeing the pages of Vogue come to life.
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The seven plans unveiled on Wednesday were selected from more than 400 submissions and represent architectural firms from New York and Los Angeles, as well as London, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Berlin.
In recent years he has been asked to decorate shutters in cities as far afield as Tokyo and New York.
The Dachis Group is also having events in cities around the world: Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Tokyo and New York.
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Cities like Hong Kong, in particular, are more like Tokyo and New York than they are anything that resembles a developing economy.
He also spent time in the UK during his 13 years with the investment bank, Goldman Sachs, which took him to London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto.
Other avant-garde gardening clubs operate in cities like Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and New York, where the Green Guerrillas, one of the first guerrilla groups, was founded by artist Liz Christy in 1973.
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The deal calls for expanded production of McQueen's womenswsear and menswear lines by Gucci's manufacturers, a rollout of McQueen boutiques in London (a flagship store on Bond Street), Tokyo and New York (near Stella McCartney's shop by the semi-gentrified meatpacking district) and for Alexander McQueen ready-to-wear collections to be shown in Paris.
When the consumer economy is in a slump, stores like Abercrombie can often report resilience, thanks to mammoth flagship stores in tourist-heavy locations like New York, Miami, London, Milan and Tokyo.
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