Candour doesn't always pay, it would appear. Kier's share price has tumbled some 20% since it cautioned investors that construction margins were coming under pressure and that a widely anticipated swell of outsourcing by public authorities was currently more like a trickle. The former point will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the sector; the latter contrasts somewhat with heady projections by the group's more strident peers.
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