At 10:26 AM +0200 on 5/14/02, David G.W. Birch wrote:
>> Compared, again, to, regulated, >> monitored, bank-to-bank foreign exchange of several *trillion* >> dollars a *day*, it's chicken feed. > > On Bob's list, yesterday: > >>> About $1.2 >>> trillion in currencies is traded daily, according to the Bank for >>> International Settlements. Zing. :-). I wonder where the $3 trillion number a day number I've heard from various people over the last 10 years came from. The first time I heard it was from someone at Telerate in 1990 or so... Cheers, RAH "The price of error, on a network of scientists, is bandwidth." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
