12.30pm update: Chancellor Alistair Darling will present his pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review to parliament on Tuesday at 3.45pm, the Treasury said today. By Ashley Seager and Fiona Walsh..
Lender is thought to have taken on a further £2.9bn of emergency borrowings from the Bank of England this week, bringing the total to an estimated £10.7bn.
Royal Mail claimed today that more than a quarter of staff members are ignoring the postal strike, as negotiations with union leaders continued. By Graeme Wearden.
Lunchtime market report: A speculative tale is doing the rounds that a private equity firm in partnership with M&S might be planning to spoil Qatari-backed Delta Two's party. By Nick Fletcher.
On America: Japanese massage chairs, scooter parking in the corridors, and a room dedicated to lego. It can only be the self-conscious wackiness of Google, which had an open day at its New York office this week. By Andrew Clark in New York.
Nils Pratley: The market is making a judgment: solid, industrial assets are in, consumer-related stuff is out, which is entirely rational if house price growth is weakening.
Shoe and homewares group Lambert Howarth has gone into administration after Marks &Spencer, its largest customer, cancelled all future orders. By Julia Finch.
