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Sports Direct shares tumble on profit warning

Sports Direct is the latest retail to blame the weather for a weaker than expected trading.

Sports Direct (LON:SPD) shares tumbled around 10% on Friday after the sportswear retailer warned investors it was no longer confident of meeting its earnings target for 2015.

The target was for £420mln (adj underlying EBITDA), but, this has now been downgraded to between £380mln and £420mln.

It blamed “a deterioration of trading conditions on the high street and a continuation of the unseasonal weather over the key Christmas period.”

Shares fell 58.5p, 11%, to trade at around 455p each.