Hot Off The Wires - 8 October 2019

News.

• Consumer spending suffered its worst September for decades last month, with total sales falling 1.3% year-on-year compared with a 0.7% increase in the same month last year, a survey by the British Retail Consortium and KPMG said.

• Pizza Express appears destined for a painful debt restructuring, while concern it was in serious financial difficulty was played down.

• PayPal has become the first company to drop out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency.

Results

• London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) - Statement re London Stock Exchange Group

• easyJet (EZJ.L) - Trading Update

• Diploma (DPLM.L) - Directorate Change

• Electrocomponents (ECM.L) - Trading Update

• Hollywood Bowl (BOWL.L) - Trading Update

• Randall & Quilter (RQIH.L) - Completion of Acquisition

• YouGov (YOU.L) - Full Year Results

• FinnCap (FCAP.L) - Trading Update

Trivia

Vehicles from which country use the international registration letters WG?

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