THE Bundesbank's headquarters in Frankfurt offer a spectacular panorama of the city's high-rise financial district.
The trip was the first concerted effort by the city government to woo investors as tenants for the new high-rise financial district called Moscow City.
See articleThe ownership of another of Canary Wharf's towers changed hands when Royal Bank of Scotland sold its building, occupied by Citigroup, in London's high-rise financial district to an investment consortium for £1 billion ($2 billion).
Among the projects are a giddy high-rise financial hub known as Pudong, a new $2 billion airport, an opera house, a national museum and the Shanghai Art Museum, home and organizer of the biennale.
Another stand-out collection on Monday came from Christopher Kane, whose show ticked every box of modernity and creativity, from the setting in London's high-rise financial district, through a sporty feel for the 2012 London Olympics to extraordinary "sticker" flower patterns.
But it was followed this week by news that the president's son, Jean Sarkozy, an undergraduate law student, is a candidate to become chairman of the development corporation for La Défense, a high-rise financial centre to the west of Paris.
In the longer term, Asia's rising financial centres will take market share from the City.
This is not guaranteed, as speculative money also flows into Japan precisely because of rising financial asset prices.
Rising financial stocks bolstered the broad market after Merrill Lynch topped estimates with an 11percentt jump in earnings.
