London Metal Exchange calls time on booze during working hours
Traders used to have a reputation for long, boozy lunches
16 June 2019 - 00:18
The long, liquid lunch will soon be a thing of the past at the London Metal Exchange (LME), one of the last bastions of face-to-face trading.
The world's biggest marketplace for industrial metals is introducing a policy that will ban floor traders and their support staff from consuming alcohol during working hours...
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