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May 2023
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Why companies don't want to list in the ...

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The London Stock Exchange once held the top spot in global financial markets. In recent years, that’s changed drastically. The FT’s Harriet Agnew and Katie Martin explain how a yacht floating off the Canary Islands 30 years ago played a critical role in changing the stock market. 


Clips from CBS, Thames News 

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For further reading:

Britain’s ‘capitalism without capital’: the pension funds that shun risk 

‘There are no domestic equity investors’: why companies are fleeing London’s stock market

Why Europe’s stock markets are failing to challenge the US

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On Twitter, follow Harriet Agnew (@HarrietAgnew), Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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