Hot Off The Wires - 21 November 2019

News

• Boris Johnson has pledged a tax cut for 31m workers by raising the threshold at which they start paying national insurance to £12,500. That would bring it in line with the level at which people start paying the basic rate of income tax, pulling 2.4m out of the tax system altogether.

• Former Brexit secretary David Davis has condemned America's attempt to extradite the tech billionaire Mike Lynch, who is currently fighting a $5bn civil fraud case in the UK.

• The European Central Bank has admitted that its own record-low interest rates are destroying banks' profits and pose a “key” threat to the ailing region’s financial stability.

• Vodafone’s German cable division Kabel Deutschland has been accused of “material obstruction” of a court-commissioned inquiry after it deleted its former chief executive’s email account.

Results

• Centrica (CNA.L) - Trading statement

• Johnson Matthey (JMAT.L) - HY results.

• Severn Trent (SVT.L) - HY Results.

• Close Brothers Group (CBG.L) - Trading update

• CLS Holdings (CLI.L) - Trading statement

• Countryside Properties (CSP.L) - FY results & Directorate change

• The company has also announced that Ian Sutcliffe

• Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM.L) - FY results

• Hill & Smith (HILS.L) - Trading statement

• Investec (INVP.L) - HY results

• NewRiver REIT (NRR.L) - HY results

• Rotork (ROR.L) - Trading update

• Royal Mail (RMG.L) - HY results

• Syncona (SYNC.L) - HY results & financing

• William Hill (WMH.L) - Trading statement

• Avation (AVAP.L) - AGM statement

• Charles Stanley (CAY.L) - HY results

Trivia

An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between the center of what two objects?

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