The companion theme of this selection - Top 25 FTSE listings on US Markets - highlighted "weaknesses as glaring as the established strength of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in traditional industries"
Next 50 FTSE listings - smaller by market cap but still strong representatives of the UK economy - share similar weakness for lack of the familiar growth drivers of the US exchanges, technology and biotech...
With little recourse and dashing the hopes of government officials and of the LSE itself, the UK financial market is destined to remain a value market of very respectable firms of consumer and industrial goods; growth remains the exception....
Financial institutions, numerous in the selection, confirm the paradox - international banks and insurers have global reach and are located in London; but finance is detached from the reality of medium-sized UK economy
Brexit did not help...neither does the country's perennial weak productivity