If successful, the deal would be the biggest ever takeover of a UK business by a foreign company.

Tana, Tokyo, Japan

Think about it this way: if the S&P is trading at around 1,200, that’s an indication that the economy is going to be reasonably healthy going forwards. Nothing special, but nothing disastrous either. We got ahead of ourselves in 2007 and fell to about 1,200. Then came the financial crisis, stocks plunged, and subsequently rebounded back to about 1,200. Over the past year or so we’ve traded at 1,200ish; momentum trading and QE2 helped to push us up, and now economic pessimism is pulling us back.

Some are whole satellites and rocket bodies, but many are just fragments.

Friday saw no sign that tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine might diminish.