Hot Off The Wires - 5th November 2019

News

• MPs on Monday called for a £2-per-bet limit on popular online games to combat what they said was a “public health crisis” of gambling addiction, hitting shares of Britain’s biggest betting companies.

• An increasing number of large listed companies are approaching firms outside the Big Four after changes designed to shake up UK auditing after accounting scandals.

• Shares of Uber fell after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations for revenue growth in the third quarter last night, but missed on the number of its active users.

• Freeport-McMoran to introduce machine learning technology at its mines to increase annual copper output by 90,000-tonnes.

• German motor executives have demanded government support to increase demand for electric vehicles as the production of Volkswagen’s first mass-market battery-powered car began on Monday.

Results

• Associated British Foods (ABF.L) - FY results

• Imperial Brands (IMB.L) - Preliminary results

• National Grid (NG.L) - Board change

• Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM.L) - Strategic review and year end update

• IWG (IWG.L) - Trading update

• Trainline (TRN.L) - HY results

• Weir Group (WEIR.L) - Interim management statement

• Wizz Air Holdings (WIZZ.L) - October traffic and CO2 emissions

• Ryanair Holdings (RYA.L) - October traffic

• Topps Tiles (TPT.L) - Directorate change

• Watkin Jones (WJG.L) - FY trading update

Trivia

Guy Fawkes is the name most associated with the Gunpowder Plot, but who was the ringleader?

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