Coronavirus impact: 2 June - technology remains the focus for investors
Shares of a creator of mobile games soar on another positive trading update and we get a degree of clarity from a provider of Covid-19 tests.
Hargreaves: ceases mining operationsHargreaves Services (LON: HSP), a diversified group delivering services to the industrial and property sectors but with increasing focus on the latter, has decided to cease all its coal mining operations by July 2020. Hargreaves will incur an exceptional cost of £3.7m in the year ended 31 May 2020 in respect of this, comprising employment related liabilities of £1m and accelerated restoration accrual, plant and mining asset depreciation of £2.7m. The Group claims that it has not experienced any material impact from Covid-19 other than in its Property business where work on a residential site near Edinburgh has…