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City bankers brace for lockdowns to return by year-end

Just over 60% of UK-based market professionals in a poll from Deutsche Bank's research unit see some form of “daily life [or] economic restrictions to still be in place” by December

Only 1% of the 189 respondents in the poll see life going “completely back to normal” by the end of 2021
Only 1% of the 189 respondents in the poll see life going “completely back to normal” by the end of 2021 Photo: Tolga Akmen/Getty Images

The country is back open, but City workers are already bracing for some parts of it to slam back shut again.

Just over 60% of UK-based market professionals in a poll from Deutsche Bank's research unit see some form of “daily life [or] economic restrictions to still be in place” and 16% expected life to be “heavily restricted after a fresh wave of Covid-19 cases” by December. 

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