Barclays' campaign to win Dutch bank ABN Amro will almost certainly come to a sorry end today - with at best very ... (The Herald)
Scottish manufactured exports expanded faster than in the heyday of the country's electronics industry in the second quarter according to official figures which showed producers shrugged off the effects of a strong pound.

Crieff Hydro continues to go from strength to strength amid a multi-million-pound capital spending programme to expand ... (The Herald)
Deutsche Bank said yesterday it will write off about â,?.2bn (?.5bn) related to the US mortgage morass, but that gains from asset sales and tax credits will still let it post a third-quarter profit of â,?.4bn.

ECB May Leave Rate at Six-Year High to Assess Credit (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank will probably keep interest rates at a six-year high as it gauges the impact of the U.S. subprime-mortgage collapse and the rising euro, a survey of economists shows.

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There had expectations among some investors that the bank might make a cut following a run on mortgage bank Northern Rock last month. "We won't know until we see what the voting split was, how close we were to a rate cut," said Roger Cursley, UK strategist at Investec said.

Northern Rock axes range of mortgages (Edinburgh Evening News)
EMBATTLED bank Northern Rock is to axe the bulk of its mortgage range in the first product shake-up since the lender was thrown an emergency funding lifeline by the Bank of England last month.