London / AFP Will Brexit threaten London’s long-booming economy? The British capital fears investors and bankers could flee the city after the shock nationwide vote, threatening its coveted reputation as a global financial hub. Some 60 percent of Londoners voted to stay in the EU in Thursday’s historic referendum, but the rest of the country cast their ballots overwhelmingly to ...

  Bloomberg Jonathan Hill, sent to Brussels by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron less than two years ago, resigned as the European Union’s financial-services chief in the wake of Britain’s vote to secede from the bloc. “As we move to a new phase, I don’t believe it is right that I should carry on as the British commissioner as though ...

  Paris / AFP Business groups in France and Germany on Sunday said EU nations should respond to Britain’s decision to quit the bloc by working even more closely together to limit the “turbulence” caused by the Brexit shock. In an joint appeal published in the French Journal du Dimanche, the heads of Germany’s powerful BDI and BDA industry groups and ...