One of London's biggest basement excavations is set to be approved next month despite residents' fears that it will create a major flooding risk
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City Comment: While the Western world as a whole is still struggling to return to stable and well-founded growth, much of the financial world is as robust now as it was before the crash... more
As rumours swirl that JP Morgan could yet pull out of building its new HQ at Canary Wharf, word reaches City Spy that the owner of Cazenove may still be tempted by a move east... more
Switzerland was anticipating an influx of bankers, businesses and wealthy individuals relocating from London as a result of the Government's 50% tax rate and the one-off windfall on City bonuses... more
Dozens of millionaire traders at one of London’s most powerful hedge funds are to quit London for Switzerland ahead of the Labour government’s 50% top tax rate hitting from next April ... more
This Friday sees publication of Against the Grain: Lessons in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Cobra Beer. Yes, indeed, Karan Bilimoria (Lord Bilimoria to you) has decided to dispense tips for would-be business stars. ... more
London is still home to five of the world's top 20 hedge funds despite a year that saw investors withdraw tens of billions of dollars from the sector as share prices and other financial assets plummeted... more
My first reaction on reading of the suggestion by the Policy Exchange think tank that the Government should in effect abandon the North and concentrate on developing London, Oxford and Cambridge, was to laugh. ... more
One of London's biggest and most successful hedge funds has warned it could quit Britain and move its $22billion assets abroad in protest at the Government's "non-dom" tax reforms.... more
Two of London's wealthiest hedge fund managers paid themselves an estimated £400 million each last year, making them among the world's biggest winners from the credit crunch... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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