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The year before Investment Week was set up in January 1995, I worked for the Reuters New...

The year before Investment Week was set up in January 1995, I worked for the Reuters News Agency on the foreign exchange desk. It was a great patch, full of real characters, particularly in the trading community such as Sheepy (an Aussie), Deadly (he was also a night club bouncer) and Bust (because every trading desk he worked on got closed down). It was well known in those days that traders in London went out on Thursday night, got trashed and as result not much FX trading was done on a Friday morning. It followed then that to make them put aside their hangovers something huge had to...