Friday, June 4, 2010

LIFFE trading floor closes



LIFFE photo linked from BBC

In reading up a bit more about the LIFFE trading floor closing, I found the following articles which I felt were worth linking:

"The end of Liffe as we know it" from The Independent Thursday, 6 August 1998

"Bleak futures for Liffe locals as pits close" also from The Independent Sunday, 15 August 1999


A snippet from the second article gave me a good laugh cause it was the only good word I've ever heard about Chicago traders: