Daily Stock Market Report (Tue 5 Nov 2024) - placeholder

Good morning and welcome to the Daily Stock Market Report! This is the new name for our daily report, previously known as the Small Cap Value Report. Don’t worry, we’ll still be covering all the small company stories that matter to you. But we’re also aiming to expand the breadth of our coverage - you can read more about the incoming upgrades to our content and analysis here.

This morning we have Graham, Megan and Roland helping to cover today’s news.

Explanatory notes

A quick reminder that we don’t recommend any shares. We aim to review trading updates amp; results of the day and offer our opinions on them as possible candidates for further research if they interest you. Our opinions will sometimes turn out to be right, and sometimes wrong, because it's anybody's guess what direction market sentiment will take amp; nobody can predict the future with certainty. We are analysing the company fundamentals, not trying to predict market sentiment.

We stick to companies that have issued news on the day, with market caps (usually) between £10m and £1bn. We usually avoid the smallest, and most speculative companies, and also avoid a few specialist sectors (e.g. natural...