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Unsual images of stock exchanges

Last updated on: April 4, 2012 15:39 IST

Image: A man works in the trading room of Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Photographs: Nir Elias/Reuters

Stock exchanges are usually associated with men in suits moving trillions of dollars around, but there is more to bourses than just suits and hard cash.

Let's take a look at some unusual images of trading floors around the world.

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Unsual images of stock exchanges


Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

A phone hangs above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening of the market.

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Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

A broker works inside a trading hall of Royal Bhutan stock exchange in Thimphu. Traders seeking a break from volatile global markets may want to head to Bhutan's bourse, where stocks are traded on just four computers - when they have not crashed - only twice a week.

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Unsual images of stock exchanges


Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Actors dressed as elves, in a promotion for office supply retailer OfficeMax, walk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

A stock trader dressed as a woman poses at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt. Despite the crisis, Frankfurt's burse traders followed a long tradition to wear carnival costumes at Germany's carnival.

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Photographs: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

Cebu Pacific airlines cabin crew perform a safety demonstration routine during a ceremony inside a trading floor of the stock exchange in Makati's financial district of Manila.

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Photographs: Alex Grimm/Reuters

Two signs showing two different escape routes are pictured at the Frankfurt stock exchange.

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Photographs: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

A stock trader dressed as a chicken stands on the trading floor at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt.

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Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters

A usher stands at the trading floor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Lujiazui Financial Area in Shanghai.

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Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Actors Sylvester Stallone and Terry Crews, centre, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves the London Stock Exchange building after her visit.

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Photographs: Stringer/Reuters

A man reads a stock guidebook at a stock exchange in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province.

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Photographs: Eriko Sugita/Reuters

Businessmen walk by the Tokyo Stock Exchange building.

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Photographs: Ralph Orlowski/Reuters

A cameraman takes pictures of the DAX Index board of the Frankfurt stock exchange.

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Photographs: Stringer/Reuters

An investor makes a note on his hand at a stock exchange market in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan province.

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Photographs: Stringer/Reuters

A man uses binoculars as he monitors stock movements at a stock exchange in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning province.

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Photographs: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters

A view of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange building.

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Photographs: Paul Yeung/Reuters

An electronic display board shows the closing level of the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong.

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Photographs: Susana Vera/Reuters

Traders at Madrid's Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Stringer/Reuters

A man looks at screens showing stock information at a brokerage house in Wuhan, Hubei province.

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Photographs: Peter Andrews/Reuters

A photographer passes by a giant screen at Warsaw's Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Gustau Nacarino/Reuters

Traders work on the floor of the Barcelona's Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Nicky Loh/Reuters

A man walks past a full green board signifying a mass drop in Taiwan stocks inside a brokerage in Taipei.

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Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Photographs: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters

Traders work on the main floor of BM&F stock exchange market in Sao Paulo.

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Photographs: Frank Polich/Reuters

A clerk takes a break outside the lean hog pit of the Chicago Board of Trade.

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Photographs: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

A light board shows the course development of the shares of German car manufacturer Volkswagen on a trading terminal at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt.

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Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters

The Bombay Stock Exchange building is reflected on a glass window as people look at a large screen displaying India's benchmark share index on the facade of the building in Mumbai.

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Photographs: John Gress/Reuters

Traders react in the Euro Dollar pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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Photographs: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

A man leaves the Australian Stock Exchange building in Sydney.