{"id":62558,"date":"2026-10-11T22:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/stop-throwing-shade-the-woman-trying-to-stop-firms-leaving-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:29:53","slug":"stop-throwing-shade-the-woman-trying-to-stop-firms-leaving-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/stop-throwing-shade-the-woman-trying-to-stop-firms-leaving-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop throwing shade&#8217; &#8211; the woman trying to stop firms leaving the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmgqwydpd4xwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, the number of companies newly listing their shares in London has dwindled. 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. It has coincided in a big rise of UK investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[230,3146,17073,484,5693,983],"class_list":["post-62558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-firms","tag-leaving","tag-shade","tag-stop","tag-throwing","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62560,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62558\/revisions\/62560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}