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Britain’s newly listed tech firms are taking a beating
They are suffering far more than their peers elsewhere
ARM YOURSELF with a hammer, and many problems look nail-shaped. And so regulators imagine a world in which market failures can be fixed by tweaking rules. A recent flurry of activity by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) prompted by London’s dwindling share of the global stockmarket is a case in point.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Punishment beating”
Britain January 29th 2022
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- Little sign of compromise over the Northern Ireland protocol
- Britain has long been a leader in genome-sequencing
- Brexit and covid-19 have produced a bigger civil service
- Britain’s newly listed tech firms are taking a beating
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- Boris Johnson is making boring politics look attractive
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