Big Bang
Big Bang. A partnership of stockbrokers in the City in October 1986. On Monday the 27th fixed commissions end, brokers and jobbers may be one firm, and…
The floor is empty. The screens are everything.
A partnership of stockbrokers in the City in October 1986. On Monday the 27th fixed commissions end, brokers and jobbers may be one firm, and dealing moves from the floor to screens. Two banks have offered to buy into the partnership. In December the gas flotation brings millions of new shareholders, and nobody in the firm has ever seen a crash.
- Starts
- October 1986
- Length
- 18 months
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Scored on
- Reach £46,000,000 of personal net worth
- Business
- Stockbroker
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