City And Suburban

That balancing item turns out to be £25 billion, so this week it's City and Palatial CHRISTOPHER FILDES A change of style this week: it's City and Palatial. The Queen spent a......

The Offshore Revolution

First to float away from its native shore was the dollar. War and recovery had left dol- lars spread around the world and the idea caught on that this pool could be tapped. To......

Tax Exile

I would not like to argue that one motive for the euro was to cut the City down to size, but putting it on the spot would be the next best thing. Big business's generals, though......

Sovereign Risk

Still, the City is always resilient, and prob- lem-solving is its business. The Queen's City round took her to Merrill Lynch and to its dealing room, where there are emptY desks......

Leaving Europe Cold

Compare and contrast the scene in onshore Europe. Trading with our neighbours might have been our obvious choice in the days when a waggon of hay could roll no further than the......

Entrepot On Thames

The City is an oddity: one of the world's three dominant financial centres, and the one without a home market to match. New York and Tokyo serve the two biggest economies of......