Hot Off The Wires - 18 December 2019

News

• Sterling slipped as low as $1.31 yesterday, unravelling all its gains in the wake of last week’s general election result after Boris Johnson set another hard Brexit deadline.

• Employment rose by 24,000 in the three months to October and by 309,000 compared to the same period in 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.

• The UK advertising watchdog has banned British American Tobacco and three other e-cigarette firms from promoting their vaping products on public Instagram pages.

• Trainline said yesterday that it was set to hit its annual targets after British and international ticket sales rose by 18% to £2.85bn.

• Whirlpool is set to recall more than half a million washing machines from UK homes because of the risk of them catching fire, the company has said.

Results

• Ferguson (FERG.L) - Appointment of interim CEO at Wolseley UK

• NMC Health (NMC.L) - Response to share price movement

• Pearson (PSON.L) - Disposal & Directorate Change

• Centamin (CEY.L) - Update on possible offer by Endeavour Mining

• IntegraFin Holdings (IHP.L) - Final results & directorate change

• NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF.L) - LSE Green Economy accreditation

• Shaftesbury (SHB.L) - Pre-letting at 72 Broadwich Street

• Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG.L) - Acquisition of music catalogue

• SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT.L) - Proposed placing

Trivia

Did you know… The New York Stock Exchange began in 1817 as the brokers formed the New York Stock & Exchange Board (NYS&EB), renting rooms at 40 Wall Street and adopting a constitution.

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