Updates from Kingfisher, Halfords and Tate & Lyle

More Eurozone stress and global growth worries saw the FTSE 100 end -1.74% down yesterday. The biggest fallers were a rash of natural resource companies while Severn Trent managed a +2.52% uptick. The French Cac 40 took a -2.24% hit.

Overnight, Asian markets followed suite with Japan's Nikkei losing -1.6% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped -1.3%.