 Companies such as Future, Wise, Pennon Group, easyJet and AJ Bell and their investors may or may not have been looking forward to the coming weeks round of results and updates, but the tone for many of them is likely to be somewhat different to before worries about the emergence of a new Covid-19 variant sent markets plummeting at the end of the past week. Still, it is very early and the potential fall-out of the nu B.1.1.529 variant, is a big unknown to add to how companys are going to approach and prepare for the coming months. 