Premier Inn owner Whitbread and Primark business Associated British Foods are in today’s spotlight as the earnings season picks up pace.
The focus is also on Wall Street, where investors are awaiting tonight’s release of figures from mega-caps Google owner Alphabet and Microsoft. In the meantime, the FTSE 100 is struggling for direction.
In the UK, public sector borrowing of £21.5 billion in the final month of the financial year represented the second-highest figure for March since records began in 1993.
