PTE Summarizing the Written Text – Task 13

Q- Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence (5-75 words). Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.

It’ll Never Fly: The City Of London

Who would have thought back in 1698, as they downed their espressos, that the little band of stockbrokers from Jonathan’s Coffee House in Change Alley EC3 would be the founder- members of what would become the world’s mighty money capital?

Progress was not entirely smooth. The South Sea Bubble burst in 1720, and the coffee house exchanges burned down in 1748. As late as Big Bang in 1986, when bowler hats were finally hung up, you wouldn’t have bet the farm on London surpassing New York, Frankfurt, and Tokyo as Mammon’s international nexus. Yet the 325,000 souls operating in the UK capital’s financial hub have overtaken their New York rivals in the size of the funds managed (including offshore business); they hold 70% of the global secondary bond market, and the City dominates foreign exchange trading. And its institutions paid out £9 billion in bonuses in December. The Square Mile has now spread eastwards from EC3 to Canary Wharf and westwards into Mayfair, where many private-equity ‘locusts’ and their hedge-fund pals now hang out. For foreigners in finance, London is the place to be. It has no Sarbanes-Oxley and no euro to hold it back, yet the fact that it still flies so high is against the odds. London is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, transport systems groan, and there’s an ever-present threat of terrorist attacks. But, for now, the deals just keep getting bigger.

Ans– Despite a history of setbacks, London’s financial hub, which has grown from Jonathan’s Coffee House in Change Alley to spread to Canary Wharf and Mayfair, has become the world’s capital for finance, boasting sizeable funds, control over 70% of the global secondary bond market, and significant influence over foreign exchange trading.

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