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Last week I was briefly in Paris and I remembered to finally post this photo which former MATIF member Fabien Danis submitted a while ago. The photo is of a shirt printed up by someone on the floor which illustrated all the jacket colors of each trading firm, as modeled by Bart Simpson.
The Bourse de Commerce where the old MATIF trading floor was located is currently undergoing continued renovations and has largely lost it's purpose ever since the exchange went electronic. The interior and exterior are gorgeous (except for the homeless people sleeping on the steps this last visit (no, I didn't ask which pit they filled orders in)) and the only trading venues which could compare in ornate beauty are the prior CBOT buildings.