{"id":78138,"date":"2026-09-01T05:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/london-stock-exchange-to-lose-three-more-firms-after-takeover-offers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:55:19","slug":"london-stock-exchange-to-lose-three-more-firms-after-takeover-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/london-stock-exchange-to-lose-three-more-firms-after-takeover-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"London Stock Exchange to lose three more firms after takeover offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest purchases take value of deals to leave capital\u2019s stock market this year past $100bn<\/p>\n<p>Three more London-listed companies are set to be taken over as the value of deals removing firms from the capital\u2019s under-pressure stock market passes $100bn (\u00a374bn) so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Bodycote, the FTSE 250 industrials group that has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1972, agreed a \u00a31.84bn takeover by the US private equity group Veritas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/01\/london-stock-exchange-to-lose-three-more-firms-after-takeover-offers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest purchases take value of deals to leave capital\u2019s stock market this year past $100bn Three more London-listed companies are set to be taken over as the value of deals removing firms from the capital\u2019s under-pressure stock market passes $100bn (\u00a374bn) so far this year. On Tuesday, Bodycote, the FTSE 250 industrials group that has &#8230; <a title=\"London Stock Exchange to lose three more firms after takeover offers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/london-stock-exchange-to-lose-three-more-firms-after-takeover-offers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about London Stock Exchange to lose three more firms after takeover offers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}