Hong Kong: A black joke doing the rounds in Asian financial circles goes like this. Question: "What's the definition of an optimist?" Answer: "A banker who has five shirts ironed on a Sunday."
It is a joke Barry Emmerton - who lost his $15,500-a month job as an interest rates derivatives specialist - can afford to smile at, even though the shirt question is already irrelevant for him.
Today, instead of waking up to the prospect of another nerve-wracking week in Hong Kong's money markets, the 34-year-old Briton is listening to the sound of the sea in a tropical beach house in the Philippines with his wife and four-year-old daughter.
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