XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Stephen Glynn   
    writes   
      
   >Hognoxious wrote:   
   >>  wrote in message   
   >> news:1131824597.598160.181330@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
      
      
      
   >Even if, as banana suggests, they were to attack the Paris Bourse it   
   >wouldn't likely have much effect; I'd be absolutely astonished if the   
   >French stock exchange haven't emulated their colleagues in London and   
   >arranged back-up electronic trading and share-dealing facilities.   
      
   I'm sure they do have a similar backup (whether it was in emulation of   
   London's, I don't know), and also the Paris stock exchange isn't as   
   important in France as the London one is in the UK.   
      
   But...well the riots have already been blamed for affecting the exchange   
   rate of the euro against the US dollar.   
      
   >Certainly if the London stock exchange is closed for any reason --   
   >terrorist attack, fire or whatever -- someone flicks a few switches and   
   >the dealing continues on back-up computers and servers located elsewhere   
   >in London.   
      
   Any idea where?   
      
   This did actually happen on 911, when the London stock exchange was   
   evacuated and trading continued at the 'alternate site'.   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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