Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:40 pm
Hey WDHIII get your info right before you blurt out misinformation.
LONDON
Population (2006)
- Greater London 7,512,400
- Density 12,331/sq mi (4,761/km²)
- Urban 8,515,000
- Metro 12 to 14 million
- Demonym Londoner
NEW YORK CITY
Population (2006)
- City 8,214,426
- Density 27,083/sq mi (10,456/km²)
- Urban 18,498,000
- Metro 18,818,536
- Demonym New Yorker
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board", is a New York City-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and, with 2,764 listed securities[1], has the second most securities of all stock exchanges. The NYSE constitutes the biggest and most crucial financial hub of the world,
New York City has an estimated gross city product of $457.3 billion(2006), larger than the GDP of Switzerland ($377 billion). If it were a country, the city's economy would be 17th largest in the world, and at $56,000 per person, New York would have the second highest per capita GDP in the world. According to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the New York urban area (18.7 million people) had a total GDP of $1,133 billion in 2005 (at purchasing power parity), ranking as the second-largest urban agglomeration GDP in the world after the Tokyo urban area.
As Europe's largest city economy, year-by-year, London's economy generates approximately 19% of the UK's GDP or US$418 billion in 2006 whilst the entire London metropolitan area generates approximately 30% of UK GDP or US$660 billion in 2005.