Money Minute Thursday 5 December: UK company results, German manufacturing and US jobs

Today's Money Minute looks forward to results from AJ Bell, DS Smith and DMGT; plus Germany's factory orders and the latest US jobless figures.

In the UK, popular investment platform provider AJ Bell issues its first set of full-year figures since it went public around about this time last year.Profits are expected to rise by about a fifth to just under £37 million.Investors will be particularly interested to see if the group has benefited from the Neil Woodford-related woes of its arch rival Hargreaves Lansdown.

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