Platinum refiner Johnson Matthey dropped 102p to £23.06 as third quarter profits fell 19% to £84.3m, hit by lower sales of catalytic converters for car exhaust systems in Europe and weak demand in Japan.
The company - which specialises in catalysts to control car emissions, as well as platinum refining - said half year profits climbed 13% to £212.9m.
Earlier this year, he posted another video of himself smashing up the platinum discs he was awarded with the band.
After a 15-year career that has spawned a record-breaking run of 14 No 1s and platinum success with 10 studio albums and two Greatest Hits collections, Irish boyband Westlife will be rising triumphantly from their stools one last time this Saturday, at the second of two sold-out farewell shows.
McCreery, a deep-voiced crooner in the same vein as Josh Turner, ended up winning the show, and his debut album Clear as Day defied expectations by going platinum.
For example, Porter's £171,692 is based on the salary a senior consultant would earn plus a platinum clinical excellence award, which is worth £75,796.
Of course, not every Idol contestant has reached Clarkson's heights of success, but artists like Ruben Studdard, Jordin Sparks, Fantasia Barrino, Chris Daughtry, David Cook, Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Jennifer Hudson, Phillip Phillips and David Archuleta have found legitimate pop success with platinum singles and/or albums, even if their mainstream fame was sometimes short-lived.
Four more albums followed in the next five years, all but the last achieving platinum status.
So, as you seat yourself for breakfast muffins, take the time to broach the subjects of jamming with Jimi Hendrix, working at Epic Records, overseeing the soundtrack for the film Rock Star and having 25 gold and platinum records.
They didn't have a clear plan of where they wanted to go – and, indeed, none of them played an instrument at first – but they knew, says Turner, "what we didn't want to be", which was a naff American soft-rock band singing about private jets and platinum credit cards.
Tellurium and the platinum group of metals are likewise essential for clean energy, as well as for many products made by the consumer-electronics, health-care and defence industries.
