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Jack Stoker, the Stock Market broker, sees tables of figures, binary numbers, flashing before his eyes on a screen above the heads of numbers below.  

Three hundred years ago... Black Tulips crash the stock market, believe it or not.  Three hundred years later, Gold and Oil recover it on the FTSE All-Share.  And then City Bank America let slip 44.67E unnoticed.  

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