London close: Stocks finish firmer ahead of lockdown easing delay lse.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lse.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gerry Murphy
Biography
Gerry Murphy was appointed as a non-executive board member of the Department of Health and Social Care in 2014 and chairs its audit and risk committee.
He is a co-opted member of the NHS England audit and risk assurance committee.
Gerry is a non-executive director of Dixons Carphone plc and until 2020 was Senior Independent Director of Capital & Counties Properties PLC.
He is a former Deloitte LLP partner and was leader of its Professional Practices Group with direct industry experience in consumer business, retail and technology, media and telecommunications.
He was a member of the Deloitte board and chairman of its audit committee for a number of years and also chairman of the Audit and Assurance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
9 March 2021 | 08:37am
StockMarketWire.com - UK stocks opened flat on Tuesday as investors weighed the benefits of easy fiscal and monetary policy with the inherent inflation risks, while companies continued to issue a mixed bag of earnings updates.
At 0823, the benchmark FTSE 100 index had edged up 1.27 points to 6,720.40.
Telecom group Vodafone fell 0.5% to 125.42p on setting a price range for the initial public offering of its Vantage Towers infrastructure business that would value it at between €11.4 billion and €14.7 billion.
The indicative price range was set at €22.50-to-€29.00 per share, with a base offer size of €2.0 billion, with flexibility to upsize €2.8 billion.
FTSE 100 rises as market optimism grows and inflation fears recede | 9 March 2021 stockmarketwire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stockmarketwire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
London midday: Stocks turn lower as Covid worries, jobs data weigh
Tue, 15th Dec 2020 11:00
(Sharecast News) - London stocks had turned lower by midday on Tuesday amid concerns about the Covid-19 crisis, with the capital set to be plunged into Tier 3, as investors mulled grim UK jobs data.
The FTSE 100 down 0.4% at 6,506.52.
Market participants were mulling the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, which showed the unemployment rate ticked higher in October while redundancies rose to a record high as the coronavirus pandemic continued to take its toll.
Redundancies came in at 370,000, which was an increase of a record 217,000 on the quarter. The unemployment rate rose to 4.9% from 4.8%, although this was a little better than expectations of 5.1%.