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Ravi, 

Yes, I see what you mean. There is probably some technical reason why it works that way, and it is unintuitive behavior, but there's a better way. 

Only properties listed directly under Transform in the timeline are native to SWF, and only those will "tween," resulting in the export of a single object plus transform data. Properties under Object Attributes (like the Anchor Point) result in exporting a separate object for each frame of animation. See the Export Report. 

You are much better off animating position instead of the anchor point, or you can enclose Transform animations in nested movie clip groups also having Transform animations -- there are many solutions, depending on the desired effect (rotations within rotations, etc.). 

While this technique adds a little complexity, it is more flexible, results in a much smaller export size, and will run better in the player. 

--Phil S.