Contrasting fortunes for the old British Gas, now split up into exploration and production group BG and energy supplier to households and businesses, Centrica

Investors in Wolseley, the building materials group with a strong presence in the US market, have grown accustomed to the company issuing profit warnings, and today it did so again

Bus and rail group Stagecoach has gone into reverse for the second day running, despite directors backing the company with hard cash

Market forces: Forth Ports was a safe haven in a market storm yesterday.

Forth Ports yesterday said that it had fired chairman Bill Thomson because he held unauthorised talks with a third party whose bid had now been rejected.

The former royal yacht Britannia has turned out to be a wildly successful tourist attraction at Leith, the redeveloped port at Edinburgh, writes Nicholas Bannister. Forth Ports, which owns and operates the Leith docklands, said yesterday that tourists flocking to see Britannia had boosted the popularity of its £100 million Ocean Terminal retail development.