Shares in Carnival plc, the British holding company in the Carnival Corp & plc group, traded 2% down in late London trading after the company had published interims for the first quarter of its financial year.
The shares traded at £23.82, which was 1.98% down on the opening. The FTSE 100 index of leading shares had lost 0.7% since the market’s opening.
Carnival reported a return to profit in the first quarter of its financial year, but lowered its net yield forecast growth to flat versus 2012 from a 1% to 2% rise it had indicated in December.