与经济全球化进程相伴,20世纪70年代,出现了全球化格局中的现代“世界城市”(World City),或称“全球城市”(Global City),其中顶级的“世界城市”纽约、伦敦、东京成为世界经济的中心,在全球政治、经济、文化及生活等方面发挥着具有举足轻重的影响力和控制力。巧合的是,这三个世界城市都拥有世界级的股市,且之间恰好相隔八小时的时区,三个城市绕地球一周形成二十四小时不间断的世界股市链。 Along with the process of economic globalization, the emergence of the modern “World City” or “Global City” in the globalized world in the 1970s, in which the top “world City ”New York, London and Tokyo have become the center of the world economy and exert a pivotal influence and control in the global political, economic, cultural and life cycles. Coincidentally, all three world cities have world-class stock markets with time zones just eight hours apart. Three cities form a twenty-four-hour unbroken world stock market chain around the globe.