Economic+London

**Economic London **
Today London is one of the world's largest financial centers and is home to more than 100 of Europe's top 500 largest companies. These companies locate in London because of the cities high population. This will be able to support their threshold.

A recession spawned by a banking crisis struck two years ago, London looked acutely vulnerable because of its reliance on finance. But London has proved more resilient than expected, and there are signs that it will recover more swiftly than the rest of Britain. Regional indicators of business activity compiled by Markit, a research firm, from reports from purchasing managers in both services and manufacturing paint a similar picture. They show that London took the lead as the recovery got under way. Since then the gap has narrowed but the latest reports, for June, still showed London just above the national average.

One boost will come from staging the Olympic games in 2012. The capital will also suffer less from public-spending cuts because the private sector is more dominant than in other parts of the country. Most important, it will benefit from its role as a primate world city. AIM is the most successful growth market in the world. Since its launch in 1995, over 3,000 companies from across the globe have chosen to join AIM. Powering the companies of tomorrow, AIM continues to help smaller and growing companies raise the capital they need for expansion.

Transportaion
Expressways and underground and surface railways carry commuters between the outlaying areas and central London each workday. The London