Will the City of London remain as one of the top financial centres of the world?

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Aphotic Cosmos

Tokyo?

You mean the capital of the "powerhouse" that's been either in recession or stagnation for two straight decades?

This isn't the eighties.

This is Finance we're discussing. Not Economics. Not recessions.

New York, London, followed marginally by Tokyo and Hong Kong are the major financial hubs of the world.

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anti-duck

Aphotic Cosmos

It is inevitable regardless of what we do to try and stop it.

Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Rio, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo . . .

You missed Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Reply 22

A for Andromeda

No, while naturally it would, the EU have shown the extent to which they hate financial services and there is a general dislike of London within the union particularly, because it is considered to be one of the contributing factors to the 'credit crunch'.

Reply 23

Brainss

anti-duck

You missed Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Gotta love the classic 'Pulling **** out your ***'. Not your comment of course, I know it's sarcastic. :smile:

He's clearly perplexed between 'financial centre' and 'economic powerhouse'.

Just because India and Brazil have high rates of GDP growth, that in absolutely no way constitutes 'financial prowess'.

Reply 24

Slick-Jay

Teaddict

Taxes went up and regulation has gone up...

Not exactly lower tax and lower regulation is it?

I assume he was being sarcastis dude... :yep:

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deddddd

England is not a very good country to live the high life. The economy is 3rd only in Europe and Germany and France enjoy better lives than the citizens of England can ever do.

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Ultimate1

deddddd

England is not a very good country to live the high life. The economy is 3rd only in Europe and Germany and France enjoy better lives than the citizens of England can ever do.

The U.K. is the second largest though :wink:

Oh, and what makes you think that the citizens in France and Germany enjoy a better life? Especially with France so secular.

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deddddd

Ultimate1

The U.K. is the second largest though :wink:

Oh, and what makes you think that the citizens in France and Germany enjoy a better life? Especially with France so secular.

Money is everything. Some information for you about USA, a country far superior than the UK: Today, the United States is home to 29.6 million small businesses, half the world's millionaires, 40% of the world's billionaires, as well as 139 of the world's 500 largest companies. As for Germany, have you ever visited Germany, the people over there drive Mercedes, BMW, Audi whereas over here the most popular vehicle is Peugot or a Honda Civic so I do not know what you can say about Germans because they owned England in the summer.