{"id":602842,"date":"2025-11-30T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:46:12","slug":"the-budget-is-a-political-mess-but-with-an-economic-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602842\/","title":{"rendered":"The budget is a political mess but with an economic silver lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">After a dire start to the year for new listings in London, there have been indications of momentum in the past few months, with the initial public offerings of small business lender Shawbrook, the food company Princes and a smaller debut from the LED light-mask maker the Beauty Tech Group. But the first half was spectacularly bad: IPO fundraising in London dropped to \u00a3160m, the lowest level since 1995, according to data gathered by Dealogic. A shift by investors away from tech has flattered the FTSE, which is dominated by banks and consumer goods companies. Lloyds Banking Group\u2019s stock is up more than 75% this year, while NatWest is up 57%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a dire start to the year for new listings in London, there have been indications of momentum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3427,748,1194,51,393,4884,1144,712,1200,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-602842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-banking","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115637307586995767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}