It's a case of “SellSell” for TalkTalk (LON:TALK) shares even after the Internet service provider played down last week's hacking episode.
The company said over the weekend it thought the cyber-attack, details of which were announced last week, was smaller than originally feared, though it did acknowledge that bank account details, including sort codes, might have been accessed by the hackers.
The company is apparently not yet ready to talk (talk) about its findings after what no doubt have been frantic investigations, but a statement from the company is expected today.
The company, currently valued at £2.24bn by the stock market, has lost one-fifth of its value in the last week.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the share prices of cyber-security firms NCC (LON:NCC) and Corero Network Security (LON:CNS) are both up more than 1% in a falling market.
Ahead of its results this week, Barclays (LON:BARC) has had an embarrassing computer glitch, after carrying out maintenance work on its system.
System recovery was apparently delayed by the clocks going back, and for a while customers were unable to shift money to and from their accounts.
Investment trusts do not often make the headlines, but Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) might just sneak on to the evening news after acquiring Gala Bingo for £241mln from Gala Coral, ahead of the latter's merger with Ladbrokes (LON:LAD).
Gala Coral will keep ownership of the online bingo web site, galabingo.com.
Gala Bingo has a 38% share of the UK retail bingo market, operating a national estate of 130 clubs with over 1.1mln active members.
In the financial year just ended it reported underlying earnings (EBITDA) of £52.7mln and profit before tax of £33.0mln; it had gross assets of £189.6mln.
Fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management (LON:ABDN) might well be green with envy if Caledonia does make it on to the evening news, though reports suggest it is not enjoying being the subject of media attention.
The Aberdeen Press and Journal, among others, has reported that the company has “hotly denied” reports that it is up for sale.
The shares, down 15.8%, are up 3.6% so someone is taking the denial with a pinch of salt.
Lastly, Majestic Wine (LON:MJW) has bowed to the inevitable and scrapped its requirement that customers buy at least six bottles from the company when purchasing wine.
The company is struggling to compete with the supermarkets, which have cottoned on to the increasing sophistication of Britain's wine drinkers and are offering a much broader range of vino than of yore.
The decision follows a trial run of the new policy in six stores, five of which were way up north (Darlington, Durham, Hexham, Newcastle and Northallerton), with the other being in Belgravia.
I now need to check the DuckDuckGo search engine to find out whether Belgravia is actually a town in the north-east of England and not a posh area of London.