Hot Off The Wires - 17 October 2019

News

• Headline retail sales in the US fell by 0.3% compared with August, in a further evidence of slowdown in the American economy.

• Hays Travel owners who bought Thomas Cook’s network of high street travel agencies out of liquidation say they have offered nearly 2,000 of the company’s former staff a job and reopened 186 of its shops.

• MPs and trade union officials have voiced fresh concerns about the prospect of British Steel being sold to the Turkish military pension fund.

Results

• Rentokil (RTO.L) - Q3 Trading Update

• Unilever (ULVR.L) - Q3 Statement

• Domino’s Pizza Group (DOM.L) - Q3 Trading Statement

• WH Smith (SMWH.L) - Preliminary Results & Acquisition of Marshall Retail

• Rathbone Brothers (RAT.L) - Q3 Results and Strategic Review

• Grafton (GFTU.L) - Trading Update

• Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG.L) - Result of C Share Issue

• Tatton Asset Management (TAM.L) - Trading Update and Acquisition

• IG Design Group (IGR.L) - Trading Update

Trivia

In what year did the Orient Express first run?

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