In the past two years, for instance, the floor-based LIFFE has lost European business to the screen-based Eurex, so that LIFFE has been forced to abandon its expensive floor altogether.Risky galoreDo derivatives make the world riskier?
Bamboo and cork are also popular, though more expensive, floor choices.
Bankers have shifted trading in German government bond futures from London's expensive floor-based exchange to Frankfurt's cheaper screen-based system, but without physically moving their traders.
"Install the most expensive flooring you can afford – herringbone parquet is great, or a really thick board.
Of all the minerals in the tribal areas, the marble from Ziarat is one of the most highly prized for use in expensive floors and walls in Pakistan, and in limited quantities abroad.
Only in such rarefied redoubts have luxury boutiques in India been able to meet their niche's international standards for parking, uncluttered walkways, expensive flooring and perfumed toilets.
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At Relative Space, engineered floors, most of them made in Italy and Germany, sell for as much as the most expensive solid floors; one product, at about $100 a square foot, is finished off with a sprinkling of 24-karat gold.
Ms. Boardman, who was also representing Mr. Tisch, showed him a less expensive lower-floor apartment in the building.
They discovered that, with a budget of around $2,200 for a one-bedroom, some of the least expensive ground-floor units were within reach.
But the asking price, $5,180 a square foot, is about 20percentt more than the most expensive high-floor apartment sold in that building when the market was strong.
