{"id":231618,"date":"2026-06-09T06:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231618"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:54:45","slug":"city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231618","title":{"rendered":"City sounds alarm on \u00a340bn foreign M&#038;A offensive targeting \u2018cheap\u2019 UK firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of City grandees has sounded the alarm on the wave of foreign firms picking off rivals from London\u2019s stock market, after a flurry of unsolicited offers took the combined value of UK companies poised to leave Britain\u2019s ailing bourse to \u00a343bn. Some 22 listed companies have already accepted or received bids that would &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/stock-market-city-grandees-sound-alarm-on-foreign-offensive\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of City grandees has sounded the alarm on the wave of foreign firms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231618-city-sounds-alarm-on-40bn-foreign-ma-offensive-targeting-cheap-uk-firms-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}