MARKET REPORT: Serco soars as it defends Covid role

MARKET REPORT: Shares in Serco soar after outsourcing giant brags about its ‘outstanding’ work on NHS’s troubled test and trace system By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 16 October 2020 Shares in Serco soared after the outsourcing giant bragged about its ‘outstanding’ work on … Read more

Instagram to clamp down on celeb ‘hidden advertising’

Instagram to do more to stop hidden advertising following UK watchdog’s probe By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 16 October 2020 Instagram is to do more to stop hidden advertising following a UK watchdog’s probe.  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating … Read more

Asda brothers see record earnings in petrol station business

Billionaire brothers who have bought Asda hail record earnings in their petrol station business By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 16 October 2020 The billionaire brothers who have bought Asda have hailed record earnings in their petrol station business.  Mohsin Issa, 49, and his … Read more

SMALL CAP MOVERS: ‘Ten-baggers’ Synairgen and Alien Metals keep up with impressive share price run

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Synairgen is worth 20 times what it was a year ago while Alien Metals keeps up its impressive share price run By Giulia Bottaro At Proactive Investors For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 16:50 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 16:52 BST, 16 October 2020 Synairgen this week completed an £80million share placing to support … Read more

Lookers credits higher sales to Britons’ enhanced fears of public transport

Car seller Lookers says higher sales are due to Britons’ fears of travelling on public transport during the pandemic Over the first nine months of 2020, new car registrations plunged by a third  Lookers sold more than 42,000 vehicles from July to the end of September  The group’s delayed publishing of its 2019 results is … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Second wave fears fuel global markets sell-off

Global markets tumbled as concerns grew about a second wave of the coronavirus and cities including London were hit by fresh restrictions. The FTSE 100 index of blue-chip companies fell 1.73 per cent, or 102.54 points, to 5832.52 as investors fretted about the damage the pandemic is doing to the economy. Millions in London, Essex … Read more

Fortnum & Mason boss lashes out at fresh lockdown measures

‘A whole generation will suffer’: Fortnum & Mason boss lashes out at fresh lockdown measures By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 15 October 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 15 October 2020 The boss of Fortnum & Mason said the Government’s decision to extend harsher lockdown measures will cause ‘a whole generation … Read more