4 h. ago Guaranty Trust Holding Company begins trading on London Stock Exchange

Guaranty Trust Holding Company begins trading on London Stock Exchange  Investing.com

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5 h. ago These charts show the scale of the London Stock Exchange’s decline

These charts show the scale of the London Stock Exchange’s decline  Yahoo

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8 h. ago Looser bonus rules and tax breaks needed to save London stock market, says CBI

Industry lobby group draws up 20-point plan to stop London ‘drifting into irrelevance’Nils Pratley: London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the TreasuryThe London stock market risks “drifting into irrelevance” without government and regulatory reforms, ranging from tax breaks for stock market listings to looser bonus rules for directors, a lobbying group has said.The 20 recommendation put forward by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which lobbies on behalf of UK businesses, suggest financial incentives, marketing campaigns and boardroom pay are central to guaranteeing the future success of the London Stock Exchange, which has been losing stock market listings and floats to foreign rivals. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the Treasury

London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the Treasury  The Guardian

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8 h. ago London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the Treasury | Nils Pratley

London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the Treasury | Nils Pratley  The Guardian

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27 h. ago Shein files to float in Hong Kong but hopes to keep London IPO alive – reports

The fast fashion retailer confidentially filed a draft prospectus last week with the Hong Kong exchange, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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6 d. ago Wise to move primary listing from London to US stock exchange

Wise to move primary listing from London to US stock exchange  Investing.com

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6 d. ago London is leaving the door wide open to private equity raiders | Nils Pratley

London is leaving the door wide open to private equity raiders | Nils Pratley  The Guardian

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7 d. ago Fears over £160bn blow to London’s stock market as AstraZeneca considers listing move to US

CEO Pascal Soriot has not hidden his annoyance at taxes and regulations the pharmaceutical firm have to navigate

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7 d. ago If AstraZeneca quits the London Stock Exchange, it will be a disaster

If AstraZeneca quits the London Stock Exchange, it will be a disaster  The Spectator

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7 d. ago Ruto opens London Stock Exchange, unveils plan to sell Kenya Pipeline through IPO

Ruto opens London Stock Exchange, unveils plan to sell Kenya Pipeline through IPO  standardmedia.co.ke

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1 week ago Smiths Group Executes Share Buyback on London Stock Exchange

Smiths Group Executes Share Buyback on London Stock Exchange  TipRanks

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1 week ago London Stock Exchange chief calls for new ‘Tell Sid’ campaign

London Stock Exchange chief calls for new ‘Tell Sid’ campaign  The Times

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1 week ago UK’s financial watchdog launches probe into troubled Wood Group

The Financial Conduct Authority’s probe will look into the period between January 2023 and November 2024.

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1 week ago Acer to delist global depositary receipts from London Stock Exchange

Acer to delist global depositary receipts from London Stock Exchange  Investing.com

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1 week ago The arithmetic is tricky for a Shell bid for BP today. Next year may be different

Shell says it has ‘no intention’ of making an offer for BP. But if its share price rises, the numbers could work BP is a sitting duck for a takeover bid by most criteria. Its share price has underperformed rivals’ for years. The latest strategic “re-set” was a bits-and-pieces production involving disposals, which do not happen overnight, plus a dilution of green energy ambitions that upset one sub-set of shareholders and didn’t go far enough according to another. Meanwhile, the chair, Helge Lund, is set to exit next year after being pursued by an activist investor.So Shell, the most credible possible bidder by a distance, would be asleep at the wellhead if it were not taking a look and calculating what costs could be removed, which development licences it fancies and how regulators and governments might react. That’s standard stuff, and Shell, one assumes, will have maintained a version of such modelling for about 20 years, which is roughly as long as tales of a combination of the t...

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1 week ago It’s also a ‘new era’ for share prices in the defence sector

Nato’s spending splurge has made Babcock hot – a sign fundamental change in dull income defence stocks is happening It’s a miracle. Babcock International, the defence contractor with a specialism in kitting out the UK’s nuclear submarines, has emerged from the depths. After about half a decade in which the story was mostly about cost overruns, acquisition indigestion, accounting woes, pension deficits and too much debt, Babcock is suddenly back in the FTSE 100 index and is a hot stock. The share price has more than doubled this year.Of course it’s not really a miracle because the performance is easily explained. A fix-the-basics strategy was started in 2020 under ex-Cobham boss David Lockwood and has worked. The last of the badly performing major contracts – to build first-of-a-kind Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy – is no longer spitting out provisions. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Up 15% in one day: London Stock Exchange set for another £3.8bn loss as Spectris accepts huge bid

Spectris is a firm which makes industrial technology specialist equipment

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2 w. ago Blow to London Stock Exchange as Scottish Widows plots huge selloff

Blow to London Stock Exchange as Scottish Widows plots huge selloff  MSN

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2 w. ago Aim boss makes plea to boost market’s appeal after inheritance tax blow

Marcus Stuttard is urging the Government to help boost ‘financial incentives’ for Aim shares and for British pension funds to back UK stocks.

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