Virgin Blue shares plummet 20%
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A profit warning from Australian no-frills airline Virgin Blue sends its shares down 20%.
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Leading shares closed lower after Marks and Spencer lost nearly 20 percent of its value after revealing it had endured its worst quarterly performance in several years, while BP was on the back foot after analysts slashed forecasts.
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Two Bear Stearns hedge funds, worth more than $20 billion, teetered on collapse yesterday after absorbing major losses from investments in the subprime mortgage industry.
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The FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 0.33 percent to 6,259.70 points.
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Vodafone Group shares fell on Tuesday as a Wall Street Journal report that its US partner Verizon was weighing a $40 billion-plus bid for Sprint revived fears it would be drawn into its second bid battle of the year.
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Shares in UK Coal,  the UK's biggest coal producer, sink as the group unveils a fall in sales and warns of rising costs.
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Shares in car rental group Avis Europe drop 12% after it reports a slide in profits and warns that earnings will remain under pressure.
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VODAFONE shares fell nearly 3 per cent yesterday on fears that the mobile phone group could come under pressure from its US partner to provide $25 billion (Â£13 billion) to help to finance a bid for Sprint.
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Shares in catering firm Compass slump nearly 20% after the firm says higher costs are set to hit profits.
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British Energy Plc shares plunged for a second day after the UK electricity producer took action to fend off investors who are trying to get more money out of the company&#39;s debt-restructuring plan.
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Jardine Lloyd Thompson shares plunged 20pc yesterday after it issued a profits warning just months after playing down an analyst&#39;s prediction of serious problems at the insurance broker.
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VIRGIN Blue will dump its Sydney to Canberra service from the beginning of next month, blaming a Qantas stranglehold on government travel and poor bookings.
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Shares in JetBlue Airways Corp.   JBLU.O fell on Friday after the discount carrier lowered its   earnings forecast amid weaker demand.
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Business & money: Company behind Magners and Bulmers sees its shares slump more than 12%.
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Business & money: Index of leading UK shares falls to lowest level since credit crunch began last August
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Shares in restructured Channel tunnel rail operator Eurotunnel fall by  40% on their first day of trading.
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Leading London shares closed lower Monday with Northern Rock plummeting 35 percent, Alliance &amp; Leicester down over 32 percent, and the US unable to offer much support ahead of the US Federal Reserve&#39;s decision on interest rates tomorrow.