Two former RP Martin brokers appeared in court yesterday before a trial into the alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate.

The demise of Yellow Pages (I refuse to use its awful new names) will be studied by MBA students for decades as a case study of corporate insanity. Few businesses have been so badly run for so many years.

BSkyB investors will be eager to see whether the pay-TV giant announces another big share buyback or if it wants to conserve cash for its Premier League football war with BT.

Miners managed to dig themselves out yesterday after weeks of being in the red as the US bellwether Alcoa reported better than expected results. The aluminium producer is the first to report earnings in the US each quarter, and beat expectations this time around. This, combined with better economic news across the board, a rise in metal prices and news of falling Chinese production costs sent metal miners soaring.

Anti-capitalist protesters blocked streets leading to the European Central Bank in Germany in protests over austerity cutbacks.

The power was pulled from National Grid amid fears of a dividend cut as the wider London market also took a tumble yesterday. Vague rumours that the energy company could cut its dividend sent it to the bottom of the benchmark index.

Banking giant’s chief executive is racing ahead of schedule with his efforts to reduce costs

Outlook Bank shareholders don't like capital issuances. Investors simply won't buy the equity. That's, at any rate, what we're often told by banks' management teams, as they complain about regulators' demands for them to build up their safety buffers.

"Arab spring" is about to gain a new meaning. The famous French department store, Printemps – spring in French – is about to be taken over by a Qatari consortium for a reported €1.6bn (£1.3bn).

The group behind the DIY chain B&Q will cap a year to forget when it posts a fall in profit this week.

The housebuilder Crest Nicholson made a triumphant £641m stock-market return as major investors piled into the biggest float of a British company since the launch of the insurer Direct Line last October.

Pinewood has new expansion plan

Global Outlook: Tokyo shut all but two of its 55 nuclear generators when Fukushima blew up