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Petrofac sees net profits in line with guidance
Oil and gas facility maker Petrofac said it expect to deliver net profit in 2016 in line with previous guidance of $445m.
First half margins down across the board at Senior
High-tech components manufacturer Senior issued a pre-close trading update on Tuesday, in which it reiterated that margins in the aerospace division will be lower in the first half of 2016.
Saga trading in line; on track to achieve FY targets
Saga said it was on track to achieve its targets for the year ending 31 January 2017 and continues to make good progress against its strategic priorities.
Sports Direct in talks to buy US rival's stores
Sports Direct International and US retail peer Modell’s Sporting Goods have begun joint talks about potentially buying several hundred stores from bankrupt rival Sports Authority, according to reports.
Just Eat delivers Paul Harrison as new finance chief
Takeaway food digital marketplace Just Eat announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Paul Harrison as chief financial officer and as an executive director, replacing Mike Wroe on 28 September.
London pre-open: Stocks seen lower after Monday's gains
London stocks were seen opening lower following the strong session on Monday, when sentiment was underpinned by polls suggesting a swing in favour of the Remain campaign.
Whitbread bounces back, BHP targets coal costs
London open The FTSE 100 index is predicted to slip back 19 points on Tuesday after its strong spike the previous day.
BHP targets further $600m in cost cuts from coal ops
BHP Billiton said it was targeting another $600m in coal production costs by the end of the 2017 financial year.
Whitbread starts solidly as Costa steams back but Premier plods
Whitbread served up a slight improvement in sales in the first quarter of the year as its Costa coffee shops bounced back from a slowdown in the preceding few months but the hotels market has been surprisingly soft.
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Soros, Brexit, ECB, disposable income
The world’s most famous currency speculator has warned that a vote on Thursday for Britain to leave the EU would trigger a bigger and more damaging fall for sterling than the day he forced Britain out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism almost a quarter of a century ago. George Soros, writing in the Guardian, said a Brexit vote would spark a ‘black Friday’ for the UK, but the devaluation of sterling would bring none of the benefits to the economy that it enjoyed after it dropped out of the ERM on 16 September 1992 – Black Wednesday.