Thursday preview: Dixons, Future, GDP ... but not Thos. Cook

In some ways, Thursday's results agenda is dominated by a company which now won't be issuing its figures this week: Thomas Cook. The company yanked its results announcement scheduled for Thursday while it holds another round of emergency talks with its bankers to winkle out some more cash to tide it over the bleak mid-winter period.

In some ways, Thursday's results agenda is dominated by a company which now won't be issuing its figures this week: Thomas Cook. The company yanked its results announcement scheduled for Thursday while it holds another round of emergency talks with its bankers to winkle out some more cash to tide it over the bleak mid-winter period.

That leaves Dixons Retail as the company result on Thursday that has the best prospect of interesting the man in the street, especially if that man is drawing up his Christmas "want-list" of electronic gadgets.

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