Fifteen UK stock market listed companies with a combined market value of nearly £170 billion could be vulnerable to takeover, analysis for the Evening Standard shows, in deals that would kick start the City and the moribund stock market.
City bankers says big money rivals, often in the US, are taking a close look at some of Britain’s best-known businesses, driven by the strength of the dollar against the pound, fresh certainty about interest rates that influence borrowing costs and low share values.
