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Britain should become exactly what Brussels fears - Singapore-on-the-Thames - but that does not mean a race to the regulatory bottom

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Brussels' determination to rein in the City of London could be self-defeating, experts warn

Last modified on Thu 11 Feb 2021 15.53 EST Amsterdam has overtaken London as Europe’s largest share trading centre, and experts say the symbolic blow could be followed by the City losing jobs as well as more business owing to Brexit. The Dutch capital, which was previously the sixth largest exchange centre in Europe, saw average daily trading surge from €2.6bn (£2.3bn) to €9.2bn in January as exchanges shifted order books abroad after Brexit. It pushed London into second place, with aver...

Greed, murder and eyeless goldfish: This is one of Tahoes oldest myths FacebookTwitterEmail A photograph of Lake Tahoe from 1903.Universal History Archive/Getty In 1910, a scandalous story of greed and murder in Lake Tahoe was published in multiple newspapers across the country. The article looked back 20 years prior, when three miners in Virginia City discovered a corpse at the bottom of a deep mining shaft, built during the Comstock Lode. According to the writer, the body — unrecognizable �...

I N THE FINAL weeks before Britain struck its Christmas Eve trade agreement with the European Union, Boris Johnson employed a euphemism for a no-deal outcome: he called it an “Australian-style” relationship. The agreement was sealed, to the relief of Britain’s manufacturing sector, but for financial services—the country’s core competence and dominant industry, which makes up 7% of its GDP—the outcome was sub-Australian. The EU recognises Australian rules as broadly equivalent to i...

Thermal screening to spot people infected with coronavirus is more reliable when scanning the eyeball and fingertip than taking body or forehead measurements.   Experts in human physiology published a scientific article on the usefulness of thermometers which scan a persons skin to detect a fever.   They say the current process is fundamentally flawed and produces a large number of false negatives, as well as some false positives, and also because not all people infected with the coronaviru...

The artists may not all like each other but they all liked Lucio’s Normal text size Very large text size Lucio’s art collection begins before you set foot in the restaurant. A tangle of pipes by Dave Teer sits high on a wall. Francesco Petrolo’s metal eggs nest in a paperbark tree. Salvatore Zofrea’s once-controversial ceramic naked woman gazes from a window. By the front door, Garry Shead’s mosaic has the writer D.H. Lawrence, his wife and kangaroo picnicking in Italy....

Reply A York County-based drywall company misclassified workers to subvert employment requirements and protections, authorities said. (Shutterstock) DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — The owners of a construction company that did business in Delaware County are facing labor-related charges, authorities said Monday. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the charges were filed against owners and workers of G&R Drywall and Framing, LLC. Authorities charged Garcia- Ramire...

Area first responders begin getting COVID-19 vaccine Area first responders begin getting COVID-19 vaccine Hunter’s Ambulance EMT Chris Ryan stands next to his ambulance Tuesday at the Berlin Fire Department. Ryan received his COVID-19 vaccination on Monday. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal Advertisement December 29, 2020 06:23PM By Lauren Sellew, Record-Journal staff First responders in the area have started getting their initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as the state rolls ou...