Shares of Senior plc (LON: SNR) have fallen over 9% on Tuesday afternoon, after Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced they would be stopping 737 MAX production.

Senior designs, manufactures and markets high-technology components and systems for the principal original equipment producers in the worldwide aerospace, defense, land vehicle and power & energy markets.

Last week, Senior announced that they would be working with Lazard Ltd on the potential divestment when it was reviewing its strategic options for its Aerostructures business.

Today, Senior said the announcement by client Boeing has sent their shares falling.

The firm tried to reassure shareholders that by saying it will provide concrete clarification in the new year on any performances that may be bruised by the production halt.

Senior said it continues to “work closely” with Boeing as the aerospace manufacturer seeks regulatory approval for returning its best-selling plane to the skies following a pair of fatal accidents.

“Senior will provide a further update on the potential implications to its 2020 performance once it has clarification from its customers,” the company added.

Senior continued: “The board’s expectations for the group’s 2019 performance remains unchanged.”

On Monday, Boeing announced that they will be temporarily suspending production of its its globally grounded 737 MAX jets next month as safety regulators delay the aircraft’s return to the skies after two fatal crashes in Africa and South East Asia.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that it could not approve the 737’s return to serviced before 2020, despite pledges from Boeing that that it could win approval before the year end.

Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration have been under intense scrutiny and media spotlight for their responses to issues with the aircraft, including the flight-handling system involved in both accidents, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.

The 737 Max has been hit under pressure as firms such as TUI (LON:TUI) reported that it may cost it as much as €300 million (£258 million), leading to the issuance of a profit warning when the 737 was grounded as consumers and businesses were hit.

Certainly, Senior will not be the only firm that is affected by this production halt.

Earlier in the year, International Consolidated Airlines (LON:IAG) announced that they ordered 200 737 MAX planes, and with the delay there has been a whole host of customers kicking down Boeing’s front door.

Senior shareholders will have to be patient as Boeing look to find compensation for both consumers and businesses hit by the production halt.

It seems that Senior shareholders were not too pleased however, as shares dipped 9.18% to 169p on the announcement. 17/12/19 13:51BST.

Greatland Gold plc (LON: GGP) have seen their shares dip on Tuesday, despite reporting gold mineralization in Australia.

A fortnight ago, the firm saw its shares dip in similar fashion. In this update on December 3, the firm said that the results extend the zones of existing high grade mineralization at their licence.

Greatland added that, Newcrest Mining Ltd (ASX: NCM), which carried out the work at Havieron, has finished a $10 million first stage of a farm-in agreement, and a second stage also worth $10 million of expenditure has now begun.

Greatland have said today that further drilling at its wholly owned Firetower project in Tasmania confirmed the presence of additional broad widths of shallow gold mineralisation.

The firm said it completed a systematic grid-based drilling programme at Firetower, comprising 14 diamond holes with depths from 50 metres to 160 metres, for a total of approximately 1,530 metres.

The programme was designed to test the main zone of gold mineralisation and results to date have confirmed broad widths of gold mineralisation, Greatland said.

In addition, two further holes were drilled for around 670 meters to test the new targets identified by a 3D induced polarisation survey at Firetower East, approximately 500m east of Firetower.

Gervaise Heddle, chief executive officer, said: “We are pleased to report a second set of positive results from our recent drilling campaign at Firetower. They show a further improvement in the continuity between drill sections and highlight the potential for a robust, near-surface gold system.”

Back in September, the company had said that initial drill results from Firetower had confirmed “broad widths of gold mineralisation”.

Initial results included 54.5 metres at 1.4 grammes of gold per tonne of ore from surface, including 5 metres at 5.4 grammes per tonne from 45 metres.

Greatland Gold will be pleased that they have reported further positive results, although shareholders do not seem so keen on the announcement following this mornings stock price movement.

Fellow Australian gold miner Resolute Mining Limited have appointed a new CEO yesterday, in an attempt to stimulate business in a tough environment and look to develop discovery and mining operations to keep up with competitors such as Greatland

Resolute appointed Stuart Gale rom Australian iron ore company Fortescue Metals Group Ltd where he was group manager for Corporate Finance for nine years since 2010.

Resolute in similar Fashion to Greatland have seen results and discoveries made in Australia, and both firms will be hoping that operations can be enhanced going into 2020.

Shares in Greatland trade at 1.75p (-3.58%). 17/12/19 12:38BST.

Hunting PLC (LON: HTG) have said that they expect annual profits to remain within their current market expectations, but are dependent on results in December.

Hunting manufacture premium, high end downhole metal tools and components required to extract hydrocarbons across the well construction, completion and intervention stages of the well’s lifecycle.

Shares in Hunting were bruised on Tuesday morning after the announcement, and trade at 383p (-6.19%). 17/12/19 11:47BST.

Hunting saw their shares in red a the end of October, as the firm speculated on lower profits following a US drilling slowdown.

The FTSE 250 listed energy company said that its third-quarter underlying profits had dropped below the $35 million and $42.4 million it had boasted in the first and second quarters respectively.

Again the firm today has seen its shares in red, as the firm hedged its bet on a solid December performance to allow it to meet guidance.

Hunting said, as anticipated, activity levels within the North American oil and gas industry continues to slow, with the pace of decline increasing in the US onshore market.

Further, the oil and gas contractor said “exhaustion” within its client base together with seasonal declines are hurting its fourth quarter results and “certain clients have closed facilities serving the US onshore sector due to the slowing market”.

Hunting added that operating profit and revenue in both October and November were below the average rate for the third quarter of the financial year due to the “slowing and highly competitive” US onshore market.

Hunting however did reassure shareholders saying that it continued to trade well and remained cash generative.

It expects to have around $110 million of cash at the end of the year, with $45 million of lease liabilities – resulting in a $65 million net cash position.

Hunting allude to the offshore and international oil market facing a slowdown, however there was a return to growth as Hunting Electronics business reported firm results.

Looking ahead to 2020, the company said: “At this time early announcements from Hunting’s publicly quoted clients indicate that capital spend in the year ahead will be lower than 2019, as the oil and gas industry endeavours to improve returns and increase cash generation for investors.”

In similar fashion to Hunting, fellow American operator Active Energy have seen their operations have stops and starts over the last week.

The firm said that it had begun it commercial production in Lumberton, North Carolina after the North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources is continuing to review its application to operate.

Trainline PLC (LON: TRN) have given shareholders a positive update saying that they are keeping their annual guidance.

Trainline saw their shares dip at the start of December, as Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party announced travel policies to rival Trainline.

The Daily Mail reported that the Labour government would would create a ‘one-stop shop’ for rail passengers to buy tickets online without booking fees, the Mail reported without citing its sources.

This came as part of Labour’s business and travel policy where it was also mentioned that it had intentions to nationalize BT (LON: BT.A) in an attempt to win voters.

However, looking back now knowing the election result it seemed that neither of these policies won voters.

Today, Trainline reiterated their annual guidance as the firm continued to deliver strong growth in ticket sales and revenue.

Within the nine months to November 30, Trainline’s climbed 26% to £198 million, with UK revenue up 22% to £178 million and International rising 90% to £20 million.

Revenue from the UK consumer segment climbed 31% to £133 million, though Trainline for Business revenue in the UK was flat at £45 million.

Trainline did note there was a slowdown in the third quarter of its year as large corporations cut discretionary travel spending.

Trainline offers a rail and coach ticket purchase platform saw net ticket sales of £2.86 billion within the none months, seeing an 18% climb year on year.

In the UK, net ticket sales were up 14% to £2.47 billion, with International climbing 49% to £390 million.

UK consumer net ticket sales rose 24% to £1.54 billion, with business sales rising 2% to £930 million.

Trainline praised the development of online ticket sale growth driven by demand from mobile users, as customer shift from paper to e-tickets.

Chief Executive Clare Gilmartin said: “We continued to deliver strong growth in the third quarter of the financial year while we focus on our mission to make rail and coach travel easier for customers worldwide, encouraging a much greener way to travel.

“We are on track to deliver our plans for the full year and will continue to invest both in the UK and internationally to deliver the significant growth opportunities for Trainline in the year ahead.”

Trainline remained optimistic for its guidance encompassing its financial year, which ends in February.

Trainline are now performing well in a market which is appearing to be in a period of tough market trading, as evidenced by rival FirstGroup who saw their shares in red as the firm considered selling their North American operations yesterday.

Bunzl plc (LON: BNZL) have said to firms that they have remained optimistic to meet expected revenue growth in a tough market.

Despite the optimism, it seems that shares in Bunzl have remained in red on Tuesday.

Bunzl shares trade at 2,085p (-0.71%). 17/12/19 11:12BST.

Bunzl is one of the biggest British outsourcing companies, having specialist international distribution services all across the world. The firm is a main stay on the FTSE 100.

Bunzl yesterday had seen their shares in green, as the firm seemed to benefit over the Boris Bounce.

Bunzl saw their shares rise the third largest in the FTSE100, just behind Glencore (LON: GLEN) and British American Tobacco (LON: BATS) however all three of these firms saw their shares boosted by over four per cent.

It seems that the election bounce has now ended for Bunzl, as the firm said that it was on track to meet revenue growth figures however weak economic conditions were weighing down on trading.

Bunzl expects revenue for 2019 to rise by 2% with revenue at constant rates rising by 1%. Underlying revenue, London-based Bunzl noted, is set to be flat on 2018.

The firm saw a dip in its underlying revenue back in October, within its third quarter update and the firm alluded to economic conditions being a constraint on trading globally.

Shareholders will remain optimistic however, as the firm did announce the acquisition of Fire Rescue Safety Australia, which distributes specialist fire safety and personal protection equipment.

Chief Executive Frank van Zanten commented: “FRSA has a market-leading position in the provision of emergency response solutions in Australia and further expands and develops the scope of our operations there. We are delighted to welcome their employees to the group.”

“The group’s expectations for the year 2019 remain unchanged with overall trading consistent with the slowing underlying revenue growth indicated in previous announcements this year due to the impact of the continued mixed macroeconomic and market conditions across the countries and sectors in which the Group operates,” said Bunzl.

In the tough operating market, it does seem that Bunzl are doing well and having had a track record of fighting market slumps, shareholders can remain positive for future outlook.

Unilever (LON: ULVR) have seen their shares in red, as it gave shareholders a gloomy outlook for their annual results.

Unilever have seen a turbulent time of trading in 2019. In October, the firm saw its growth slump in both India and China, which alerted shareholders.

Unilever revealed an underlying sales growth of 2.9%, with 1.4% from volume and 1.5% from price. Meanwhile, turnover grew by 5.8% driven by sales growth.

Just a month on, the firm made a new Chairman appointment in Nils Andersen.

Andersen was brought into the firm to tackle the slowdown in Indian and Chinese business, having had experience working with AP Moller Maerskv , Carlsberg A/S and as a non executive director at BP.

Unilever today have seen their shares crash, as the firm reported that underlying sales growth will fall short of guidance due to economic slowdown in South Asia and tough trading conditions in West Africa.

The FTSE 100 listed firm initially had expected underlying sales growth in the lower half of its 3% to 5% multi-year range. However, it now expects underlying sales “slightly below” this guidance.

The main reason that Unilever alluded to this change was the challenges in the quarter in some markets”, including continued trouble in west African markets and a slowdown in south Asia, one of Unilever’s biggest markets.

Chief Executive Alan Jope said: “Due to challenges in certain markets, we expect a slight miss to our full year underlying sales growth delivery.

“Looking ahead to 2020, growth will be second-half weighted. While we expect improvement in H1 2020 versus this quarter, we expect that first half growth will be below 3%. Our full year underlying sales growth is expected to be in the lower half of the multi-year range.

“Growth remains our top priority and we are confident we have the right strategy and investment in place to step up our performance.”

Two of Britains biggest banks in Lloyds (LON:LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LON:RBS) have seen their shares dip after failing the UK’s most rigorous banking test.

Both the British banks had seen their shares in green since Friday, as the firms continued to ride a wave of optimism following PM Johnsons election win dubbed the ‘Boris Bounce’ by analysts.

However, today the picture is slightly more worrying for both of the British banks.

Both banks passed the Bank of Englands annual assessment in the balance sheet department.

However, plans to double a 100 basis point capital buffer designed to protect lenders in depressed economic conditions could put both bank’s 2020 share buyback plans in jeopardy, analysts said.

“Given we have not seen an acceleration in credit growth, we conclude this is being put in place to be, for lack of a better word, a “Brexit buffer” as the Bank of England has now determined that a 2% buffer is more appropriate in a “standardised risk environment,” Jefferies analyst Joseph Dickerson said.

The increase in the countercyclical buffer is seen likely to lead to a reduction in core tier 1 capital requirements by a similar amount, allowing major British lenders to absorb up to 23 billion pounds of losses in a downturn without restricting lending, as Reuters reported.

But near-term goals to deliver more than a billion pounds of shareholder rewards via a buyback bonanza must now be considered “best case”, according to analysts at KBW.

Lloyd’s have already been put into bad media spotlight earlier this year. The firm faced public scrutiny when they received criticism over the treatment of victims within the HBOS fraud scandal.

Certainly, this will do no favor to either firm especially at a time where the global banking industry and firms such as Lloyds and HSBC (LON: HSBA) have seen their profits take a bruising.

Certainly, being a big player in the banking industry does often lead to a lot of media coverage both good and bad, but not passing the Bank of England stress test may alert both senior management and shareholders.

Shares in Barclays dipped 4.29% to 249p. 17/12/19 10:49BST.

Shares in Lloyds fell further by 5.49% to 63p. 17/12/19 10:50BST.