THE DAILY BRIEFING

STILL LOSING More jobs have been lost following the collapse of engineering giant Carillion, taking the total to more than 2,300.

TOP JOBS Ambulance driver, funeral services director, fashion model and librarian are among the most sought after jobs, a study jobs site Adzuna found.

HOSTEL BOSS Online hostel booking firm Hostelworld has named former Expedia executive Gary Morrison as chief executive. CIG BLOW Analysts at Berenberg have downgraded its price target for tobacco firm Imperial Brands by 315p to 3450p per share. MINER JOB Uranium miner Berkeley Energia has named Sean Wade, formerly of Georgia’s TBC Bank, as chief commercial officer. OIL BLOW Russian oil firm Rosneft produced 4.57m barrels a day from January to March, down 1.2pc on last year because of a supply pact with oil cartel Opec.

MORE LOSS South Africafocused platinum miner Lonmin posted a first-half loss of £23.5m, down from £133m last year. ON BOARD Chemicals firm Victrex has hired David Thomas, exfinance director of engineer Invensys, as a non-executive director.

PAY ROW Pension advisers should be paid differently to avoid high-pressure sales tactics, Aviva executive Andy Briggs has said.

FUND PROBE Malaysia’s prime minister Mahathir Mohamad will speed up the probe into tainted sovereign wealth fund 1MDB. FASHION AIM Fashion house LVMH is top investor in a multimillion-pound injection of funds into the search engine Lyst. CHINA PLAN Wall Street’s JP Morgan will buy a majority stake in Chinese investment firm China International Fund Management. BEAN OUT Scandal-hit Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief finance officer Rob Jesudason has quit. CBA lost backup data for 20m customers.

APP ROLE Ex Amazon UK executive Jamie Heywood is taxi app firm Uber’s northern Europe chief.

SHARE PLUNGE Shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla have fallen after Doug Field, the company’s top engineer, took a leave of absence.