London's third great function, since the seventeenth century, has been that of national and international bourse: the exchange of stocks and shares, banking, commerce and, increasingly, insurance.

自17世纪以来，伦敦的第三大功能就是充当国内和国际证券交易所，负责股票和股份、银行业、商业以及越来越多的保险的交易。

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Disastrous was the way one trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange described the drop in US shares on Thursday.

纽约证券交易所一名交易者形容周四美国股价的下跌是灾难性的。

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According to SharesPost, an exchange for shares of private companies, Facebook is worth more than $45 billion. Google's market value is more than four times that amount.

据sharepost公司(一家私人证券交换公司)估计,Facebook的市值大约450亿美元，而google的市值大约是其四倍。

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Under the proposal, unveiled by EC president Jose Manuel Barroso, the FTT would be imposed on the exchange of shares and bonds at a rate not lower than 0.1 percent and on derivative contracts, at a rate not lower than 0.01 percent.

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Several generations before, the family had sold its private coal mine in exchange for shares of the coal company.

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With this sort of contract, the owner of a big, highly appreciated stock position gets an upfront payment from an investment firm--typically for 75% to 85% of the value of his shares--in exchange for agreeing to deliver a variable number of shares or cash in the future, with the exact amount dependent on how the stock performs.

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