3) Organisers of the Geneva Motor Clearly show have urged executives using component to stay 3ft absent from any one with a cough in a bid to stop a coronavirus outbreak. There are expanding doubts above whether the display – one of the biggest gatherings in the automotive calendar – will go ahead.

4) Ocado chairman Lord Rose cashes in £1.7m value of shares: The 70-calendar year previous Conservative peer, who turned chairman in 2013, bought a hundred and fifty,000 of Ocado shares at £11.24 for every share. Previous calendar year he also pocketed £7.4m by offering two individual batches of shares in two days.

5) Onerous tax variations for freelancers will go ahead, says IR35 overview: No penalties in 1st twelve months of new policies is only considerable modification in Treasury’s review 

Coming up now

Rolls-Royce could consider modern effects as a possibility to reassure traders it will maintain its job as the engine supplier for Airbus’s A330neo, following studies Normal Motors is tilting at receiving far more business enterprise from the team.

Entire-calendar year effects: Alliance Believe in, ConvaTec, Essentra, Rightmove, Rolls-Royce

Preliminary: Foxtons, IMI, Jupiter Fund Administration, London Stock Trade Group, Guy Group

Economics: GfK client self confidence (United kingdom), flash inflation (eurozone)