| From Bloomberg: Currency-trading volumes may take years to recover after a plunge in risk appetite sparked by the global financial crisis drove away hedge funds and speculators, according to foreign-exchange analysts.
Daily trading in London dropped 25 percent in April from a year earlier, with volumes in North America slumping 26 percent, according to surveys released yesterday by the Bank of England and Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Trade in Tokyo slid 16 percent, data compiled by the Foreign Exchange Market Committee in Tokyo showed.........Full Article: Source
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