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William Hill Shares Dive 11% On Profit Alert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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William Hill shares dive 11% on revenue alert<\/p>\n

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(Close): William Hill shares shut down more than 11% after the bookmaker cautioned on earnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It said online trading had been struck by tougher regulation and “the worst Cheltenham results in current history”.<\/p>\n

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It now expects full-year operating profit<\/a> to be between \u20a4 260m and \u20a4 280m, down from \u20a4 291.4 m last year. As an outcome, the FTSE 250 business saw its shares drop nearly 40p to 331p.<\/p>\n

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However, the benchmark FTSE 100 ended flat, up 6.4 points at 6199.1.<\/p>\n

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Top riser on the yohaig code<\/a> FTSE 100 was B&Q owner Kingfisher. Its shares completed up 6% despite reporting a 20% drop in full-year revenues<\/a> to \u20a4 512m.<\/p>\n

However, when reorganizing expenses were stripped out, underlying revenues were a better-than-expected<\/a> \u20a4 686m.<\/p>\n

William Hill stated there were 2 main elements behind the weaker-than-expected performance from its online company.<\/p>\n

It stated it had actually seen “an acceleration in the number of time-outs and automated self-exclusions over current weeks”, measures which enable punters<\/a> to halt betting with a bookmaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

William Hill stated that while the pattern was “still progressing, we approximate that, ought to these trends continue around present levels, the following lower revenues will minimize online’s profits by \u20a4 20-25m in 2016”.<\/p>\n

Secondly, its earnings margins were lower than expected<\/a> since of European football outcomes and recently’s Cheltenham horseracing<\/a> festival, where were hit by big a variety of favourites winning races.<\/p>\n

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William Hill said that in spite of its online problems, the wider group continued<\/a> “to trade well” and remained in line with expectations.<\/p>\n

The business likewise stated it remained in “advanced discussions” to buy Openbet, a video gaming<\/a> software application company.<\/p>\n

Sterling<\/a> weak<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the London market, shares in Sports Direct were having another bad day, down an even more 5.6% after dropping about 10% on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Earlier the retailer had released<\/a> a declaration stating that it expected full-year underlying profits to be “at or around the yohaig code<\/a> bottom” of a previously approximated variety. The statement<\/a> was issued following remarks that founder Mike Ashley made to the Times paper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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On the currency markets, the pound stayed weak after having actually fallen sharply<\/a> on Tuesday in the wake of the horror attacks in Brussels, which were viewed as increasing<\/a> the probability of the UK voting to leave the EU.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, sterling fell<\/a> almost 1% versus the dollar to $1.4087. Against the euro, it lost 0.4% to EUR1.2623.<\/p>\n

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