Updates from Carpetright, Imperial Tobacco and Croda International

A bruising for the markets: stress about Spanish debt and the eurozone's future saw markets tumble yesterday. The FTSE 100 ended -2.09% down at 5,533, the biggest faller being Evraz, down -6.95%.

Despite the eurozone anxiety, better Chinese manufacturing news and HSBC data helped keep the Japanese Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng off earlier day lows.