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There is an old British word about the buses: you expect ages for one, and then two people come at once.

Pharmaceuticals analysts experienced something similar because they offered big announcements on Monday, two big British drug producers – GSK and Astrazeneca.

GSK, Nine -year CEO Emma Walmsley, the disadvantage (the old consumer health branch now a separate company called Haleon) will leave the year at the end of the year, he said. Luke Miels, who is currently a commercial chairman, has moved away from Az eight years ago.

Meanwhile, Az announced their plans to “Make the stock listing structure harmonious to provide a global list for global investors in a global company”.

In practice, this means to delete American deposit receipts (Adrs) from NASDAQ and replace them with the direct list of ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

ADRs are certificates that can be processed by US banks representing a certain number of shares of a foreign company (usually one). They tend to be less liquid than the fully listed stocks, which deterrent some investors.

The movement was met by investors and its shares increased by 0.8% on Monday. It should bring new US investors, especially – even though it is not given – if it finally earns S&P 500 membership.

Faults from England

In the first blush, when Times reported that CEO Pascal Soriot wants to move the stock market list to the United States, they confirm that fears were published for the first time.

The British newspaper said that Soriot, who has been in the rudder today for 13 years, has specially talked about doing this several times and even moved AZ’s residence. When Soriot did not deny the report in the next result briefings, and even called AZ as “more American company”, he took off the flames. AZ is among the few major pharmaceutical companies that pause or postpone the UK investments due to disappointment in the country’s drug pricing regime.

Accordingly, some interpret this as another blow to the London Stock Exchange (LSE), which was actually reported locally. A clutch consisting of large names, all former FTSE 100 members, has recently removed its primary lists from England.

The defects began in 2021 when the BHP Group (BHP Billiton) announced that FTSE’s most valuable company-hisses planned to pass through a double-listed structure in which they were listed in both England and Australia. This was actually cost savings and simplification exercise, and at that time he stole a small number of alarms, at least BHP maintained a standard list in LSE and allowed British investors to be exposed to business. Moreover, BHP did not have a real presence in the UK outside the central office.

The following year, Ferguson, the plumbing and heating products distributor, which has been the UK stock exchange for decades under the name of Wolsey, carried its primary list to New York. Again, this wasn’t a surprise, because it made up more than 90% of the sales of North America at that time.

In March 2023, the world’s largest building material supplier CRH – when he chose to switch to New York, there was still no panic. As a result, CRH, which has a primary list in London for only 12 years, was actually an Irish company that produces more than three quarters of its US earnings in the USA

Flutter Entertainment, owner of Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Betting & Gaming and US Business Fanudel, said he is considering transporting his main list to New York. He’s done that since then.

This was completely serious because the paddy power supported by the Irish was put aside, essentially a major player in the British and domestic market. Combining concerns, Later in that year, Cambridge -based chip designer Kol Holdings chose to list Nasdaq instead of LSE on the return of the stock market.

Since then, Anglo-German tour operator TUI TUI has switched to a single list in the second binary list in London and Frankfurt, while the FTSE 100 facility and equipment rental company Ashtead-Kurulu announced the name of Surrey Village. This reflects the fact that 90% of his job is now in North America.

The bad news, like London drizzle, continued to arrive: Just Eat package service last December, London and Amsterdam, the second in the second list, he said; The same place was chosen by Unilever in February this year for Demedged freezing.

Fast fashion giant Shein’s recently chosen through London for the first public offering Hong Kong, and now founded by two Estonian entrepreneurs in London, now a fintech (formerly called $ 14.78 billion), a shareholder approval from London to New York.

Is it a little different case?

However, AZ’s decision may not be as bad as it seems. It was painful that “the current status of the UK as the Central and Tax Company” would not change, and that it was entirely a wider mix of global investors and emphasizing that New York was about better access to larger capital pools.

This does not seem to be a movement in search of a higher stock note: the price / earning rate of AZ is not only the European peers such as Novo Nordisk and Roche, but also overcoming several US peers, including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck.

However, the British government should not complain. This movement makes it potentially a full list key to New York if Soriot’s frustrations in England finally boil.

Rachel Reeves, the country’s chancellor, can prove that the stamp tax reserve tax, which is a 0.5% anachronistic tax on all stock purchases, is awake for the risk directed to the London market.

However, because it collects £ 3 billion a year for the treasury – I do not bet.

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Louise Hellem, CBI Chief economist, discusses the options of the chancelide before the upcoming budget of the British government at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool.

Ruth Curtice, General Manager of Solution Foundation, discusses the potential plans to increase personal taxes and the appearance of migration at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool.

Although Ian King creates more “unicorn horses” than other countries other than the USA and China, Squawk Box is joining Europe in Canary Wharf to discuss why Britain is not good in scalaning of initiatives.

– Holly Ellyatt

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England’s ‘on the road for the fork’, Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned. Starmer’s annual conference in Liverpool in Liverpool said on Tuesday that Britain was facing “renovation or decrease”. Comments, right -wing party reform England Leader in surveys.

Bank bosses in the UK call for policy stability. The autumn budget of Finance Minister Rachel Reeves is planned to be planned on November 26th. In front of Barclays, Citi and JP Morgan CEOs in front of the CNBC, the banking sector said that the government needs a great clarity from the government.

Barclays CEO doubles in England. This is despite the possibility of increasing taxes in the banking sector in the government’s budget. The bank’s chief CS Venkatakrishnan said the tax would “drown growth”, but still call the British “house” of the bank.

– Yeo Boon Ping

Your week’s quote

In markets

Stocks listed in London progressed last week, FTSE 100 1.38% increase from 23 September. It ended with 9,350.43 points on Tuesday, and with concerns surrounding the US government’s potential closing that focuses on the minds of investors.

Yield 10 -year GILTS British borrowing was sharply focused on Rachel Reeves by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in his Liverpool Conference in Liverpool, and rose from 4.695% to 4.701% a week ago.

Meanwhile, sterling Last week, it fell by 0.71% against the dollar and reached $ 1.34.

– Katrina Bishop

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October 1: Housing prices throughout the country

6 October: England New Car Sales Data

October 7: Halifax House Price Index

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