London oil traders famed for stripy blazers and frenzied hand signals took their final bow today as the high-tech era claimed another victim in the City.
The passing of the open outcry oil trading pit comes after London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) announced trading in Brent crude oil futures contracts would go completely electronic from Friday.
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