Ministerial sources pointed out that the European Ccommission has recently proposed moving away from mandatory requirements on quoted companies to produce quarterly reports and interim management statements.
Symptom management factors were measured using the Nijmegen Expectation Questionnaire (NEQ) and a series of management statements.
A list of 15 management statements were also developed to identify people's views on what influences their symptom management and included personal factors, social factors, factors relating to the symptom and factors relating to healthcare services.
John Lawson at Investec said: Life never seems to get any easier at FirstGroup as on a day that the group presents a broadly OK pre-close interim management statement, with student and UK bus delivering some encouraging noises (albeit Greyhound is still facing challenging economic conditions), it then announces the loss of the ScotRail franchise.
The group will release a first quarter interim management statement on 22 June and we expect this to be more of a negative than a positive catalyst for the shares.
Numis said: Weir has released its third quarter interim management statement highlighting order input growth and a positive book-to-bill.
Future, which publishes titles including Metal Hammer, Simply Knitting and Total Film, said in an interim management statement today that its circulation revenue over that period was down 8% and its ad revenue down 14%.
SocGen said: Following a positive interim management statement we are reiterating our buy rating on Whitbread and raising our price target.
In November the chain issued an interim management statement saying that weak demand from both the corporate and leisure segments continued to put pressure on occupancy levels and average room rates in all regions.
Rachael Waring at Panmure Gordon said: Barratt has reported a solid interim management statement, with trading broadly in line with our expectations and the debt performance better than expectations.
