The FTSE 100 was steady at two-month highs of around 7,330 points this morning.
Business secretary Grant Shapps has hinted the government may announced an extension of its windfall tax on oil and gas companies, when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government reveals its fiscal plans on 17 November.
In the markets betting giant Flutter claimed victory in a dispute over Fox’s plans to take a stake in US gaming company FanDuel.
Irish airline Ryanair swung to a profit of £1.2bn despite rising costs, after doubling its passenger numbers on the year.
Biopharma company Scancell signed a licence agreement for a technology that will aid development of its immuno-oncology drug candidate.
Cloud-based big-data analytics platform Rosslyn Data has signed two multi-year contracts worth approximately £1ml with what it called blue-chip customers.
And AFC Energy has hailed the success of the first trial of its prototype methanol fuel tower with construction group ACCIONA in Spain. It was able to generate on-site hydrogen from methanol to power a compound nearby.