Block party as last NN follows first Scout, but Elis fails to clear

Upward-sloping stockmarkets this week have brought a big crop of block trades, including the expected first selldowns of shares in Scout24, the German property and car sales website, and Elis, the French workwear group. That trade was launched on Thursday evening, along with the last of a series of big sales of stock in insurer NN Group by ING.