Bombay Stock Exchange
How to come out on top, on the busiest trading floor in the world.
In Bombay - now Mumbai - money is a serious business. The city's bustling stock exchange is the site of daily fights and scuffles as businessmen of India's economic heartland vie for a share of the country's growing wealth. Has capitalism gone out of control?
"It's very much fun, I must tell you", says one broker. There is a very physical aspect to the trading floor, a far cry from the sterile offices where these brokers spend most of their time. The floor is only open for two hours every day, but that is more than enough given the regular violence during trading. The place is resilient: despite the detonation of a bomb at the exchange only a year previously, it was open for trading the very next day.
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