Howden, the engineering company based in Renfrew, has suffered a sharp fall in first-half profits and revenues.

Scottish & Southern Energy’s long-running pursuit of EDF’s UK power networks has ended after Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing successfully tabled a massive £5.8bn offer.

Savers are having a tough time.

Consumer group Which?

Scots struggling under the weight of debt are being misled by some of the market’s biggest financial services companies, in defiance of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Les Montgomery, the chief executive of Highland Spring, regards his finest moment as one day last October when he stood before the company’s then

British Airways has reported a first-quarter pre-tax loss of £164 million after disruption caused by cabin crew strikes and the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud, but remained upbeat for the full year, pointing to signs of recovery in its business.

Scottish Coal owner Scottish Resources Group last night pulled its planned £200m-plus stock market flotation, in a dramatic after-hours development, but its owners insisted they would try again in the autumn.

The owner of The Herald, Evening Times and Sunday Herald has posted a 43.8% fall in underlying earnings for 2009, after a recession-induced decline in advertising revenues cut turnover by 20.6%.

Aberdeen-based oil and gas explorer Dana Petroleum has increased the pressure on prospective bidder Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC) by announcing the discovery of a new oil field in Egypt.