FTSE 100 Live: Index hits record high as AstraZeneca and GSK shares soar

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FTSE 100 Live: Index hits record high as AstraZeneca and GSK shares soarThe City AM markets live blogGood morning from the liveblog team at City AM. Some acronyms are so entrenched in common parlance that they need not be explained: NHS, GDP, MOT. But the listings pipeline has become so thin, we may have to start reminding readers – and ourselves – what it stands for. The amounts raised represent a tiny fraction of the roughly £40bn that has been raised in the US over the same period. We can only hope the fourth quarter brings better numbers for the City, before we all lose IPOs from our lexicon altogether.