Economic and Market News for 6 November 2020

Costa Deliziosa's one-week cruises to Greece will be paused from 7 November until 26 December 2020 following the nationwide lockdown announced by the Greek government to contain the coronavirus...

Diversified business group Barkby said it had been granted an extension of up to three months to file its financial results for the year ended 30 September 2020. As agreed with AIM Regulation,...

Medical diagnostics company Omega Diagnostics has allotted 275,865 of new shares at 4p each following the exercise of share options under the company's Sharesave scheme by certain option holders....

Cross-border financial services provider STM Group has signed a credit facility with Royal Bank of Scotland for £5.5m to support its M&A growth strategy. The credit facility is to be used...

Resource exploration and development company Empire Metals said recent drilling at its Eclipse gold project, had confirmed extensions to previously defined mineralisation both along strike from the...

Mining company Beowulf said it would conduct an open offer to shareholders to raise up to approximately £7.3 million at a deep discount. The company would also receive a further conditional...

Online career development platform Dev Clever said it had signed a heads of terms agreement with Veative Labs and the National Independent Schools Alliance, to implement its career development...

Gambling group Rank Group has announced it is selling 77,746,020 of new shares at 90p per share to raise £70 million. The statement said that 76,736,762 of placing shares have been conditionally...

Drugmaker AstraZeneca said its Brilinta drug was approved in the US to reduce the risk of stroke or death in patients with acute ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischaemic attack. The...

HgCapital Trust said it had invested about £20m in Gen II Fund Services, a private equity fund administrator. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed and closing of the transaction...

Budget airline EasyJet said it expected to fly no more than 20% of planned capacity for the fiscal first quarter of 2021 folllowing lockdowns in England, Germany, and France. The company also...

Engineering and industrial software Aveva said it would launch a rights issue to raise gross proceeds of approximately £2.835 billion to partly fund the acquisition of OSIsoft, a global leader in...