O2 Flotation Delayed Over Brexit Fears: Report
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published October 22, 2018 | 09:31 PM
Spain's telecoms giant Telefonica has postponed its planned introduction of the UK mobile operator O2 to the London Stock Exchange until after Brexit, news reports said on Monday.
London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Oct, 2018 ) :Spain's telecoms giant Telefonica has postponed its planned introduction of the UK mobile operator O2 to the London Stock Exchange until after Brexit, news reports said on Monday.
Britain's Press Association said Telefonica bosses were concerned by the drop in stock prices of peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle and carmaker Aston Martin after their flotations in the past month.
A Telefonica spokesman told AFP that it did not have a timetable for O2's initial public offering (IPO), which the Press Association said had been expected this year.
Analysts said the sale could value the firm at up to �10 billion (11 billion Euros, $13 billion).
Floating shares of its British subsidiary would help the Spanish company chip away at a mountain of debt of around 40 billion euros.
Britain will leave the European Union on March 29, with the two sides still unable to agree how trade between the two will function thereafter.
The uncertainty and broader fears over Britain's economic future have weighed on the London market for months.
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