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Market Pulse
31 Oct
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BNP Paribas net income grows as core business faces challenges

BNP Paribas shares were in the red on Thursday morning, after it reported third-quarter net income of €2. 87bn, marking a 5. 9% year-on-year increase, amid challenges in its core lending business and a mixed performance from investment banking.

31 Oct
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Oncimmune secures three new contracts

Oncimmune Holdings reported continued commercial progress on Thursday, securing three new contracts since its last update on 9 September.

31 Oct
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Hutchmed to receive $20m Fruzaqla milestone payment

Hutchmed China announced on Thursday that it was set to receive a $20m milestone payment from its partner Takeda, after sales of ‘Fruzaqla’, or fruquintinib, surpassed $200m.

31 Oct
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Seeing Machines revenue rises, cash outflows narrow

Seeing Machines reported a 17% revenue increase in its year-end results on Thursday, to $67. 6m, aligning with market expectations as regulatory momentum fuelled demand for its driver monitoring technology.

31 Oct
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Custodian Property sells vacant Solihull office for £1.4m

Custodian Property Income announced the sale of a vacant office unit in Solihull for £1. 4m on Thursday, achieving a 33% premium over its valuation as of 30 June.

31 Oct
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Pan African commissions Mogale Tailings Retreatment operation

Pan African announced the successful commissioning of its Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) operation on Thursday, with the first gold pour at its smelting facility occurring in early October.

31 Oct
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Augmentum Fintech to exit investment in FullCircl

Augmentum Fintech announced on Thursday that nCino, a Nasdaq-listed digital banking platform, had agreed to acquire FullCircl, a regulatory technology (RegTech) platform in which it holds an interest.

31 Oct
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Asia report: Most markets fall as Bank of Japan holds rates

Asia-Pacific markets saw a general downturn on Thursday as investors reacted to the Bank of Japan's decision to keep interest rates unchanged and monitored China’s latest manufacturing data.

31 Oct
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Synthomer trades broadly in line with expectations in Q3

Chemicals business Synthomer said on Thursday that overall Q3 trading was broadly in line with internal expectations as continuing group volumes improved from historically low levels.

31 Oct
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VH Global constructs, commissions two systems in Australia

VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO) announced on Thursday that the construction and commissioning of two hybrid solar and battery storage systems in New South Wales, Australia had been completed.

31 Oct
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Sainsbury’s sells AFS cards portfolio to NewDay Group

Sainsbury’s said on Thursday that it has agreed to sell the Argos Financial Services (AFS) cards portfolio to NewDay Group for £720m.

31 Oct
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Coca-Cola HBC reports strong third-quarter revenue growth

Coca-Cola HBC reported strong organic revenue growth of 13. 9% in its third quarter on Thursday, fuelled by focused execution throughout the summer period.

31 Oct
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Spectris Q3 sales down

Precision instrumentation and controls group Spectris warned on Thursday that the recovery it had anticipated at the time of its H1 results was "taking longer to materialise".

31 Oct
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Kainos FY revenues to be 'moderately below' market views, shares slide

Kainos tumbled on Thursday as the IT services company said full-year revenues would be "moderately below" current market consensus, with the majority of the reduction flowing through to adjusted pre-tax profit.

31 Oct
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London open: FTSE falls again after Budget; Shell results in focus

London stocks fell in early trade on Thursday as investors sifted through a raft of corporate releases and continued to mull the implications of the Budget.

31 Oct
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BoJ keeps benchmark policy rate unchanged

The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark policy rate unchanged on Thursday at 0. 25%, as widely expected.

31 Oct
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Haleon 'on track' for full year, notwithstanding currency headwinds

Haleon reported organic revenue growth of 6. 1% for the third quarter on Thursday, driven by balanced increases in both price and volume/mix at 3. 3% and 2. 8% respectively, though reported revenue declined by 0. 6% due to currency impacts.

31 Oct
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London pre-open: Stocks seen down again; Shell in focus

London stocks looked set for further losses on Thursday, having ended firmly in the red a day earlier after Labour’s first Budget in 14 years.

31 Oct
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China manufacturing activity expands for first time in six months

Manufacturing activity in China expanded in October for the first time since April, according to figures released on Thursday by the National Bureau of Statistics.

31 Oct
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, car finance crisis

The former cryptocurrency executive Nishad Singh, who once shared a $35m Bahamas penthouse with the FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, was spared prison time by a judge on Wednesday for his role in the theft by his imprisoned former boss of about $8bn in customer funds from the now bankrupt exchange. The United States district judge Lewis Kaplan imposed the sentence during a hearing in Manhattan federal court. – Guardian.