Robert Walters sees full-year profit 'materially ahead' of market views

Robert Walters said on Tuesday that full-year profit is expected to be "materially ahead" of current market expectations.

In the briefest of trading updates, the recruiter said it had seen strong trading across all of its regions in the first two months of the fourth quarter, which bodes well for the full year to the end of 31 December 2017.

Back in October, the company said it was confident that pre-tax profit for the full year would be ahead of current market expectations, as it reported a 21% year-on-year jump in net fee income for the third quarter to £90.7m.

At 1040 GMT, the shares were up 7.4% to 591.48p.