{"id":795424,"date":"2026-10-08T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795424\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:44:13","slug":"stop-throwing-shade-the-woman-trying-to-stop-firms-leaving-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795424\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop throwing shade&#8217; &#8211; the woman trying to stop firms leaving the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the number of companies newly listing their shares in London has dwindled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, there were 23 initial public offerings (IPOs) on the London market, with \u00a32.1bn raised. In the US, which has much larger capital markets, there were 354 with $44bn (\u00a333bn) raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has coincided in a big rise of UK investment money flowing into US stocks in search of better returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We talk as a nation about wanting growth in every postcode, but at the moment, a lot of us are funding growth in every zip code,&#8221; Dame Julia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was &#8220;no shortage of great companies and no shortage of capital&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But negative sentiment about the UK market &#8211; which was often exaggerated &#8211; had contributed to companies leaving in the past, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to stop throwing shade at ourselves as a nation&#8230; it&#8217;s a national habit.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, the number of companies newly listing their shares in London has dwindled. Last year, there were 23&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}