Coming up for air

摘要

As a recession spawned by a banking cri-sis struck two years ago, London looked acutely vulnerable because of its reliance on finance. The sight of distraught employees leaving Lehman Brothers' glitzy office in Canary Wharf after the investment bank folded in September 2008 seemed to presage a similar collapse in the capital's economy. But London has proved more resilient than expected, and there are signs that it will recover more swiftly than the rest of Britain.